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DECENNIAL REGISTER 



SOCIETY 



OF THE 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



STATE OF CONNECTICUT 
1893-T913 



Issued by the Society 

Hartford, Conn. 

1913 






PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



FOR THE SOCIETY 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 



HON. EDWARD HART FENN, Wethersfield, 
Secretary of the Connecticut Society. 

HON. FRANCIS HUBERT PARKER, Hartford, 
Registrar of the Connecticut Society. 

CHARLES BARNEY WHITTELSEY, Hartford, 
Historian of the Connecticut Society. 



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OFFICERS 



SOCIETY 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, 
1913-1914. 

President. 
HON. MORGAN GARDNER BULKELEY, Hartford. 

Vice-President. 
HON. DANIEL NASH MORGAN, Bridgeport. 

Secretary. 
HON. EDWARD HART FENN, Wethersfield. 

Treasurer. 
WALTER COLLYER FAXON, Hartford. 

Registrar. 
HON. FRANCIS HUBERT PARKER, Hartford. 

Chaplain. 
REV. FREDERICK R. SANFORD, Madison. 

Historian. 
CHARLES BARNEY WHITTELSEY, Hartford. 



BOARD OF MANAGERS. 

1913-1914 

Eugene Boardman, East Haddam, 
Charles B. Whittelsey^ Hartford, 
Louis W. Button, Rocky Hill, 
Walter St. George Harris, Hartford, 
Clarence H, Wickham, Manchester, 
Harry W. Reynolds, East Haddam, 
Ralph A. Blydenburg, Middletown, 
Isaac W. Birdseye, Bridgeport, 
Clarence B. Warner, East Haddam. 



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THE SOCIETY 

OF THE 

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 
Instituted May 24, 1893. Incorporated September 7, 1893. 



CONSTITUTION. 

Preamble. 

Whereas, it has become evident from the decline of 
proper celebration of such National holidays as the Fourth 
of July, Washington's Birthday, and the like, that popular 
interest in the events and men of the War of the Revolution 
is less than in the earlier days of the Republic; 

And Whereas, this lack of interest is to be attributed 
not so much to lapse of time as to the neglect on the part 
of descendants of Revolutionary heroes to perform their 
duty of keeping before the public mind the memory of the 
services of their ancestors, and of the times in which they 
lived, and of the principles for which they contended; 

Therefore, the Society of the " Sons of the Revolu- 
tion," has been instituted, to perpetuate the memory of the 
men who, in military, naval, or civil service, by their acts 
or counsel, achieved American Independence ; to promote and 
assist in the proper celebration of the anniversaries of 
Washington's Birthday, the Battles of Lexington and 
Bunker Hill, the Fourth of July, the Capitulations of Sara- 
toga and Yorktown, the formal Evacuation of New York 
by the British Army, on the 3d of December, 1783, as a 
relinquishment of territorial sovereignty, and other proml- 

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8 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

nent events relating to or connected with the War of the 
Revolution; to collect and secure for preservation the 
manuscript rolls, records, and other documents and memorials 
relating to that War; to inspire among the members and their 
descendants the patriotic spirit of their forefathers; to 
inculcate in the community general sentiments of Nationality 
and respect for the principles for which the patriots of the 
Revolution contended; to assist in the commemorative cele- 
bration of other great historical events of National impor- 
tance, and to promote social intercourse and the feeling of 
fellowship among its members. 

Article I. 

Name of Society. 
The Society shall be known by the name, style and title 
of " Sons of the Revolution." 

Article II. 
Membership. 

Any male person, above the age of twenty-one years, 
shall be eligible to membership in the " Sons of the 
Revolution " who is descended from an ancestor, as the 
propositus, who either as a military, naval, or marine officer, 
soldier, sailor, or marine, or official in the service of any 
one of the thirteen original Colonies or States, or of the 
National Government representing or composed of those 
Colonies or States, assisted in establishing American Inde- 
pendence during the War of the Revolution, between the 
19th day of April, 1775, when hostilities commenced, and 
the 19th day of April, 1783, when they were ordered to 
cease. 

Provided: That when the claim of eligibility is based 
on the service of an ancestor in the " minute men," or 
" militia," it must be satisfactorily shown that such ancestor 
was actually called into the service of the State or United 
States, and performed garrison or field duty; and 

Provided further: That when the claim of eligibility 
is based on the service of an ancestor as a " sailor " or 



CONSTITUTION. 9 

" marine " it must in like manner be shown that such serv- 
ice was other than shore duty and regularly performed in 
the Continental Navy, or the Navy of one of the original 
thirteen States, or on an armed vessel, other than a merchant 
ship which sailed under letters of marque and reprisal, and 
that such ancestor of the applicant was duly enrolled in 
the ship's company, either as an officer, seaman, or other- 
wise than as a passenger: and 

Provided further: That when the claim of eligibility 
is based on the service of an ancestor as an " official " such 
service must have been performed in the civil service of the 
United States, or of one of the thirteen original States, 
and must have been sufficiently important in character to 
have rendered the official specially liable to arrest and 
imprisonment, the same as a combatant, if captured by the 
enemy, as well as liable to conviction of treason against the 
Government of Great Britain. 

Service in the ordinary duties of a civil office, the per- 
formance of which did not particularly and efectively aid 
the American Cause, shall not constitute eligibility. 

In the construction of this article, the Volunteer Aides 
de Camp of General Officers in Continental Service, who 
were duly announced as such, and who actually served in 
the field during a campaign, shall be comprehended as hav- 
ing performed qualifying service. 

The civil officials and military forces of the State of 
Vermont, during the War of the Revolution, shall also be 
comprehended in the same manner as if they had belonged 
to one of the thirteen original States. 

No service of an ancestor shall be deemed as qualify- 
ing service for membership in the " Sons of the Revo- 
lution " where such ancestor, after assisting in the cause 
of American Independence, shall have subsequently either 
adhered to the enemy, or failed to maintain an honorable 
record throughout the War of the Revolution. 

No person shall be admitted unless he be eligible under 
one of the provisions of this Article, nor unless he be of 



lO SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

good moral character and be judged worthy of becoming a 
member. 

Article III. 

Officers. 
The officers of the Society of the " Sons of the 
Revolution " shall be a President, a Vice-President, a 
Secretary, a Treasurer, a Registrar, and a Chaplain, who 
shall be chosen by ballot at every annual meeting from 
among the members thereof. 

Article IV. 
Board of Managers. 
The Board of Managers of the Society shall be fifteen, 
namely: the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary, 
the Treasurer, the Registrar, and the Chaplain, ex officio, 
and nine others who shall be chosen by ballot at every 
annual meeting from among the members of the Society. 

Article V. 
Admission of Members. 

Every application for membership shall be made in 
writing, subscribed by the applicant, and approved by two 
members over their signatures. Applications shall contain, 
or be accompanied by, proof of eligibility, and such appli- 
cations and proofs shall be submitted to the Board of Man- 
agers, who shall have full power to determine the qualifica- 
tions of the applicant. 

Payment of the initiation fee and subscription to the 
declaration required by the Constitution of this Society shall 
be a pre-requisite of membership. 

Article VI. 

Declaration. 

Every member shall declare upon honor that he will 

endeavor to promote the purposes of this Institution and 

observe the " Constitution " and " By-laws " of this Society, 

and, if he be a citizen of the United States, shall declare 



CONSTITUTION. II 

that he will support the Constitution of the United States. 
Such declaration shall be in writing, and subscribed by the 
member making it. 

Article VII. 
Institution Considered. 
At every meeting the purposes of the Institution will be 
fully considered and the best measures to promote them 
adopted. No question, however, involving the party poli- 
tics of the day within the United States shall ever be dis- 
cussed or considered in any meeting of the " Sons of the 
Revolution." 

Article VIII. 
Commemorations. 
It shall be a standing Regulation that the members shall, 
when practicable, hold a commemorative celebration and 
dine together at least once every year. 

Article IX. 
Seal. 
The seal of the Society of the " Sons of the Revo- 
lution " shall be one and seven-eighths of an inch in 
diameter, and shall consist of the figure of a " Minute- 
man " in Continental uniform, standing on a ladder leading 
to a belfry, and holding in his left hand a musket and an 
olive branch, and grasping in his right hand a bell rope. 
Above, the cracked "Liberty bell;" issuing therefrom a 
ribbon, bearing the motto of the " Sons of the Revo- 
lution; " " Exegi Monumentum JEre Perenniiis." Across 
the top of the ladder, on a ribbon, the figures " 1776," 
and at the left of the Minute-man, and also on a ribbon, 
the figures " 1883," the year of the Centennial commem- 
oration of the permanent evacuation by the British army of 
American territory; the whole encircled by a band three- 
eighths of an inch wide; thereon at the top thirteen stars 
of five points each, and at the bottom the legend, " Sons 



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SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



OF THE Revolution;" the following being a facsimile 
thereof : 




The Secretary shall be the custodian of the seal, which 
shall be identical in every particular with this description. 



Article X. 
Insignia. 

The insignia of the " Sons of the Revolution " shall 
consist of a badge pendant from the ribbon by a ring of 
gold. 

The badge shall be elliptical in form, with escalloped 
edges, one and one-quarter inches in length and one and 
one-eighth inches in width; the whole surmounted by a gold 
eagle, with wings displayed, inverted. On the obverse side 
a medallion of gold in the center, elliptical in form, bear- 
ing on its face the figure of a soldier in Continental uniform, 
with musket slung. Beneath, the figures "1775;" the 
medallion surrounded by thirteen raised gold stars of five 
points each upon a border of dark blue enamel. 

On the reverse side, in the center, a medallion, corre- 
sponding in form to that on the obverse, and also in gold, 
bearing on its face Houdon's portrait of Washington in 
bas relief, encircled by the legend, " Sons of the Revo- 



CONSTITUTION. 13 

lution/' Beneath, the figures " 1883," and upon the 
reverse of the eagle, the number of the particular badge 
engraved; the medallion surrounded by a plain gold border 
conforming in dimensions to the obverse, upon which mem- 
bers may have their names engraved in script. 

The ribbon shall be dark blue, ribbed and watered, edged 
with buff, one and one-half inches wide and one and one-half 
inches in displayed length. 

The insignia shall be worn by the members conspicuously 
and only on the left breast on all occasions when they shall 
assemble as such for any stated purpose or celebration. 
The badge shall never be worn as an article of jewelry. 

The Treasurer of the Society shall procure and issue 
the insignia to the members and shall keep a record of all 
issued by him. , 

Such insignia shall be returned to the Treasurer of the 
Society by any member who may formally withdraw or 
resign or be expelled, but otherwise it shall be deemed an 
heirloom. 

No member shall receive more than one badge, unless 
to replace one, the loss or desti-uction of which shall first 
be satisfactorily established. 

On occasions other than the meetings for any stated pur- 
pose or celebration, members may wear a rosette of the 
prescribed ribbon and pattern in the upper buttonhole of 
the left lapel of the coat. 

The Treasurer shall procure and issue the rosettes to 
members. 

Article XI. 

Alterations and Amendments. 
No alteration nor amendment of the Constitution of 
this Society shall be made unless notice thereof shall be duly 
given in writing, signed by the member proposing the same, 
at a meeting of the Society, nor unless the same shall be 
adopted at a subsequent meeting, held at least thirty days 
after such notice, by a vote of three-fourths of the mem- 
bers present. 



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SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



BY-LAWS. 



Section I. 
Initiation Fee, Dues, and Contributions. 

The initiation fee shall be two dollars; the annual dues, 
three dollars, which shall be payable on or before the first 
day of January in every year. The initiation fees and dues 
must accompany every application for membership. The 
payment at one time of forty dollars shall henceforth exempt 
the member so paying from the payment of annual dues. 

Any member who may contribute one hundred and fifty 
dollars to the " Permanent Fund " of the Society shall be 
exempt from the payment of annual dues, and this exemption 
shall extend In perpetuity to his lineal successors in member- 
ship from the same propositus, one at a time, who may be 
selected for such exemption by the Society. 

Section II. 
Permanent Fund. 
There shall be a " Permanent Fund," to be derived from 
contributions, and to remain forever to the use of the Society, 
the income only of which shall be expended. 

Section III. 
President. 
The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, or 
in his absence a chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all 
meetings of the Society and of the Board of Managers, and 
shall exercise the usual functions of a presiding officer, under 
general parliamentary rules, subject to an appeal to the 
Society in proper cases under those rules. The President 
shall be, ex officio, a member of all committees other than 



BY-LAWS. 15 

the Committee on Nominations. He shall have power to 
convene the Board of Managers and appoint the place of 
such meeting when called by him. 

He shall also perform such other representative duties 
on behalf of the Society, either personally or by corre- 
spondence, as it or the Board of Managers may find desir- 
able or necessary, or as customarily appertain to his office, 
and he shall enforce a strict observance of the Constitution 
and By-laws of the Society. 

In case of his decease, resignation, neglect to serve, or 
inability from any cause to act as President, the duties of 
the office shall devolve on the Vice-President until the 
vacancy caused by such decease, resignation, or neglect to 
serve shall be filled, or until the inability shall cease. 

Section IV. 
Secretary. 

The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence 
of the Society and keep a record thereof. He shall notify 
all qualified and accepted candidates of their admission, and 
perform such other duties as the Society or Board of Man- 
agers or his office may require of him. He shall have 
charge of the seal, certificates of incorporation, by-laws, 
historical and other documents and records of the Society 
other than those required to be deposited with the Registrar, 
and shall affix the seal to all properly authenticated cer- 
tificates of membership and transmit the same without delay 
to the member for whom it shall be issued or to his proper 
representative. He shall also notify the Registrar of all 
admissions to membership, and transmit to him the applica- 
tions and proofs of eligibility of all persons so admitted. 
He, together with the presiding officer, shall, when nec- 
essary, certify all acts of the Society, and, in proper cases, 
authenticate them under seal. He shall have charge of all 
printing and publications directed by the Society or by the 
Board of Managers. He shall give due notice of the time 
and place of all meetings of the Society and of the Board 
of Managers, and shall attend the same. He shall keep fair 



l6 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

and accurate records of all the proceedings and orders of the 
Society and the Board of Managers, and shall give notice 
to the several officers of all votes, orders, resolves, and pro- 
ceedings of the Society or of the Board of Managers, 
affecting them or appertaining to their respective duties ; and 
at the annual meeting, and oftener if required, shall report 
to the Society the names of those candidates who have been 
admitted to membership, and also the names of those mem- 
bers whose resignations or voluntary withdrawals have been 
consented to and accepted, and also the names of those mem- 
bers who have been expelled or dropped for non-payment of 
dues or for failure to substantiate claim of descent. In his 
absence from any meeting, a Secretary pro tempore may be 
designated therefor, unless the Assistant Secretary shall be 
present to act in such capacity. 

Section V. 
Treasurer. 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and 
securities of the Society; and as often as those funds shall 
amount to one hundred dollars they shall be deposited in 
some bank, which shall be designated by the Board of Man- 
agers, to the credit of the Society of the " Sons of the 
Revolution/' and such funds shall be drawn thence on the 
check of the Treasurer for the purposes of the Society only. 
Out of these funds he shall pay such sums only as may be 
ordered by the Society or by the Board of Managers, and 
shall perform such other duties as the Society or Board of 
Managers or his office may require of him. He shall keep 
a true account of his receipts and payments, and, at each 
annual meeting, render the same to the Society with a full 
statement of the financial condition of the Society, when a 
committee shall be appointed to audit his accounts. 

For the faithful performance of his duty he shall give 
such security as the Society, or Board of Managers in lieu 
of its action thereon, may from time to time require. 



BY-LAWS. ly 

Section VI. 
Registrar. 
The Registrar shall receive from the Secretary, file and 
keep on record, all the proofs upon which memberships have 
been granted, declarations of members on admission of ad- 
herence to the Constitution and By-laws of the Society, 
together with a list of all diplomas countersigned by him, 
and all documents, rolls, or other evidences of service in the 
War of the Revolution of which the Society may become 
possessed; and he, under the direction of the Board of 
Managers, shall make or cause to be made for file in his 
office, copies of such original or certified documents as the 
owners thereof may not be willing to leave permanently in 
the keeping of the Society. 

Section VII. 
Chaplain. 
The Chaplain shall be a regularly ordained minister of 
a Christian denomination, and it shall be his duty to open 
and close all meetings with customary chaplaincy services and 
perform such other duties as ordinarily appertain to such 
office. 

Section VIII. 

Historian. 
The Board of Managers shall have power to appoint a 
Historian, who shall keep a detailed record, to be deposited 
with the Secretary, of all the historical and commemorative 
celebrations of the Society; and he shall edit and prepare for 
publication such historical addresses, essays, papers, and 
other documents of a historical character, other than a 
Registrar of Members, as the Secretary may be required to 
publish; and at every annual meeting, if there shall be a 
necrological list for the year then closing, he shall submit 
the same, with carefully prepared biographies of the de- 
ceased members. 



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Section IX. 
Assistant Secretary. 

The Board of Managers shall have power to appoint an 
Assistant Secretary, who shall assist the Secretary in the per- 
formance of such duties of that office as the latter may from 
time to time devolve upon him, and may, in such cases, give 
required notices and certify and authenticate, when necessary, 
any acts, documents, or records of the Society. 

In case of the absence of the Secretary from any meeting 
of the Society or of the Board of Managers, or of his 
decease, resignation, neglect to serve, or inability from any 
cause to act in that capacity, the duties of the office shall 
devolve on the Assistant Secretary until the Secretary shall 
return, or until the vacancy caused by such decease, resig- 
nation, or neglect to serve shall be filled, or until the inability 
shall cease. 

Section X. 
Board of Managers. 

The Board of Managers shall judge of the qualifications 
of every candidate who shall make proper application for 
admission to the Society, and shall have power to admit him 
to membership therein, if found eligible under the Constitu- 
tion of this Society. Three negative votes shall be a rejec- 
tion of the applicant. 

They may, through the Secretary, call special meetings 
of the Society at such times as they may see fit, and they may 
arrange for commemorative celebrations by the Society. 

They shall recommend plans to the Society for promot- 
ing its purposes, and, when practicable, may digest and pre- 
pare business for its meetings, and shall supervise all 
publications issued in its name, and decide whether copies of 
records or other documents or papers may be furnished on 
request of any party in cases not pertaining directly to the 
business of the Society and the proper conduct of its affairs. 

They shall generally superintend the interests and shall 
have the control and management of the affairs and funds of 
the Society. They shall also perform such duties as may be 



BY-LAWS. 



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prescribed by the Constitution and By-laws, or required by 
any Standing Rule or Resolve of the Society; provided, 
however, that they shall at no time be required to take any 
action nor contract any debt for which they shall be jointly 
or severally liable. They shall be competent to consent to 
and to accept the resignation or voluntary withdrawal from 
membership of any enrolled member of the Society. 

They may require the attendance of any member of the 
Society, or any official or committee thereof, at any meeting, 
for consultation and advice. 

The Board of Managers shall meet as often as they may 
desire, or at the call of the President, or upon the written 
request of any three members of the same addressed to the 
Secretary, 

A majority of the Board of Managers shall be a quorum 
for the transaction of business. 

At every annual meeting they shall submit to the Society 
a general report of their proceedings during the year then 
closing, and at such other time as may be required by the 
Society. 

Section XI. 
Expulsion and Suspension. 

The Board of Managers shall have power to expel any 
enrolled member of this Society who, by a conduct incon- 
sistent with a gentleman and a man of honor, or by an 
opposition to the interests of the community in general or 
of this Society in particular, may render himself unworthy to 
continue a member, or who shall persistently transgress, or, 
without good excuse, willfully neglect or fail in the per- 
formance of any obligation enjoined by the Constitution or 
By-laws or any Standing Rule of this Society. Provided, 
that such member shall have received at least ten days' notice 
of the complaint preferred against him, and of the time and 
place for hearing the same, and have been thereby afforded 
an opportunity to be heard in person. 

Whenever the cause of expulsion shall not have involved 
turpitude nor moral unworthiness, any member thus expelled 



20 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

may, upon the unanimous recommendation of the Board of 
Managers, but not otherwise, be restored to membership by 
the Society at any meeting. 

The Board of Managers shall also have power to drop 
from the Roll the name of any enrolled member of the 
Society who shall be at least two years in arrears in the pay- 
ment of dues, and who, on notice to pay the same, shall fail 
and neglect to do so within ten days thereafter, and upon 
being thus dropped, his membership shall cease and deter- 
mine, but he may be restored to membership at any time by 
the Board of Managers on his application therefor, and 
upon his payment of all such arrears and of the annual dues 
from the date when he was dropped to the date of his 
restoration. The Board of Managers may also suspend any 
officer from the performance of his duties, for cause; which 
proceeding must be reported to the Society and acted upon by 
it within thirty days, either by rescission of the suspension or 
removal of the suspended officer from office, or otherwise 
the suspension shall cease. 

Section XII. 
Vacancies and Terms of Ofjice. 

Whenever an officer of this Society shall die, resign, or 
neglect to serve, or be suspended, or be unable to properly 
perform the duties of his office, by reason of absence, sick- 
ness, or other cause, and whenever an office shall be vacant, 
which the Society shall not have filled by an election, the 
Board of Managers shall have power to appoint a member 
to such office pro tempore, who shall act in such capacity until 
the Society shall elect a member to the vacant office, or until 
the inability due to " suspension, absence, sickness, or other 
cause " shall cease. Provided, however, that the office of 
President or Secretary shall not thus be filled by the Board 
of Managers when there shall be a Vice-President or Assist- 
ant Secretary to enter upon the duties of those offices 
respectively. 

In like manner, the Board of Managers may supply 
vacancies among its members, under the same conditions and 



BY-LAWS. 21 

limitations; and in case any member thereof, other than an 
officer, shall be absent from three consecutive meetings of the 
same, his place therein may be declared vacant by the Board 
of Managers and filled by an appointment which shall con- 
tinue in full effect until the Society shall elect a successor. 

Subject to these provisions, all officers of the Society, and 
the members of the Board of Managers, shall, from the 
time of their election or appointment, continue in their re- 
spective offices until the next annual meeting, and until their 
respective successors shall be duly chosen. 

Section XIII. 
Resignation. 
No resignation or voluntary withdrawal from member- 
ship of any member enrolled in this Society shall become 
effective as a release from the obligations thereof unless con- 
sented to and accepted by the Board of Managers, 

Section XIV. 

Disqualification. 

No person who may be enrolled as a member in this 
Society shall be permitted to continue in membership where 
the proofs of claim of qualification by descent shall be found 
to be defective and insufficient to substantiate such claim, or 
not properly authenticated. The Society, or the Board of 
Managers, may, at any time after thirty days' notice to such 
person to properly substantiate or authenticate his claim, 
require the Secretary to erase his name from the list of mem- 
bers, and such person shall thereupon cease to be a member: 
Provided, he shall have failed or neglected to comply satis- 
factorily with such notice. 

Where the Board of Managers shall direct the erasure 
of a person's name for a cause comprehended under this 
section, such person shall have a right of appeal to the next 
annual meeting of the Society; but he shall not be restored 
to membership unless by a vote of three-fourths of the mem- 
bers present on that occasion, or at a subsequent meeting to 



22 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

which the consideration of the appeal may have been spe- 
cifically postponed. 

Section XV. 
Annual and Special Meetings. 

The Society shall hold an annual meeting at the head- 
quarters of the Society in the Nathan Hale School House 
in the town of East Haddam in the month of June, 1901, 
and each year thereafter at the call of the Board of Man- 
agers, at which a general election of officers and managers 
by ballot shall take place. 

In such election the polls shall be open one and one-half 
hours, and a majority of the ballots given for any office or 
for a manager shall constitute a choice therefor; but, if 
on the first ballot no member shall receive such a majority, 
then a further balloting, in such case, shall forthwith take 
place, in which a plurality of votes given shall determine the 
choice therefor. During any election the regular Order of 
Business may be proceeded with. 

Special meetings shall be held by direction of the Board 
of Managers, or upon the written request of thirty members 
of the Society, at such time and place as said Board may 
direct. At such special meeting no business shall be trans- 
acted except such as shall be specified in the notice therefor. 

One week's notice of time and place of annual or special 
meetings shall be given by mailing through the post-office 
in said city a written or printed notice to every member of 
the Society. 

At all meetings of the Society the members present shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 

The meetings of the Society for business shall be gen- 
erally conducted according to parliamentary law and the 
following Order of Business shall, as far as the same may 
be applicable, be followed: 

Order of Business. 

1. Meeting called to order by Presiding Officer. 

2. Prayer by the Chaplain. 



BY-LAWS. ^ 23 

3. Reading of minutes of prior meetings not pre- 
viously acted upon. 

4. Election of officers and managers, when necessary. 

5. Communications from or Report of Board of 
Managers. 

6. Reports of Officers. 

7. Reports of Special Committees. 

8. Unfinished business. 

9. Written communications requiring action of the 
Society. 

10. Specially noticed business. 

1 1. Notices of motion for subsequent meeting. 

12. Miscellaneous business. 

13. Reading of the Preamble to this Constitution. 

14. Closing Prayer by the Chaplain. 

Section XVI. 
Service of Notices. 

It shall be the duty of every member to inform the 
Secretary, by written communication, of his place of 
residence and of any change thereof, and of his post-office 
address. 

Service of any notice under this Constitution or By-laws 
upon any member of the Society, addressed to him at his last 
recorded place of residence or post-office address, and for- 
warded by mail, shall be deemed sufficient service of such 
notice. 

Section XVII. 
Recommendation of Candidates. 
No member shall approve an application for member- 
ship in this Society unless he shall know the candidate to 
be worthy, and shall have satisfied himself by due examina- 
tion of proofs that such candidate is eligible, and will, if 
admitted, be a desirable member. 



24 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Section XVIII. 
Nominating Committee. 

The Society may, at the annual meeting, choose a Nomi- 
nating Committee, of nine members, to nominate officers and 
members of the Board of Managers, for election at the suc- 
ceeding annual meeting. 

In case the Society shall not choose such a committee, the 
President shall, prior to every annual meeting, appoint such a 
Nominating Committee of nine members from among the 
members longest enrolled as such, who may consent to serve 
on such Committee, exclusive of officers or members of the 
Board of Managers. 

The Nominating Committee shall select and nominate a 
ticket of the names proposed to fill the respective offices, to 
be elected by ballot, which ticket shall be printed and distrib- 
uted as the " Regular Ticket " at the ensuing annual 
election. 

In order to secure as far as may be in the Board of 
Managers stability in procedure and familiarity with pre- 
cedents in the business affairs of the Society, every Nominat- 
ing Committee shall, in making nominations for the suffrages 
of the Society of members of said Board other than those 
who are ex officio members, so arrange their recommend- 
ations as to provide for the retirement annually of not less 
than three nor more than four of those who shall have 
served longest continuously on said Board, and for the con- 
tinuance of a proportionate number. 

Section XIX. 
Decease of Members. 

Upon the decease of any member, notice thereof, and of 
the time and place of the funeral, shall be given by the Sec- 
retary by publication, and it shall thereupon become the duty 
of the members, when practicable, to attend the obsequies. 

Any member, upon being informed of the decease of a 
member, shall make it his business to see that the Secretary 
is promptly notified of the fact, which fact shall also. In due 
time, be communicated to the Society. 



BY-LAIVS. 25 

Section XX. 

Certificate of Membership. 
Every member shall be entitled to receive a certificate of 
membership, which shall be authenticated by the President 
and Secretary, and countersigned by the Registrar of the 
Society, and to which the seal of the " Sons of the 
Revolution " shall be affixed. The certificate shall be in 
form following: 

" SONS OF THE REVOLUTION." 

Be it known that has been duly 

admitted a member of this Institution in right of the 

services of in the cause of American 

Independence during the War of the Revolution. 

Dated at the city of , this day of 

, in the year of our Lord thousand 

hundred and , and of the In- 
dependence of the United States of America the 



' — ^-^^ President of the Society. 

Secretary of the Society. 



Registrar. 

Section XXI. 

Marshal. 
The President of the Society may, from time to time, 
in his discretion, designate a member to act, under his direc- 
tion, as Marshal for the Society in its commemorative cele- 
brations, parades, and other meetings, and to perform such 
duties as usually appertain to such a position. 



26 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Section XXII. 
/^Iterations or Amendments. 
No alteration nor amendment of the By-laws of this 
Society shall be made unless notice thereof shall be duly 
given in writing, signed by the member proposing the same, 
at a meeting of the Society, nor unless the same shall be 
adopted at a subsequent meeting, held at least thirty days 
after such notice, by a vote of two-thirds of the members 
present. 



INSIGNIA. 



27 



INSIGNIA. 



Authority has been given by Cong^ress to the officers and 
men of the army and navy to wear the Insignia of the 
Societies of the Revolution and other military societies, and 
thus has given recognition to the following: " Society of 
the Cincinnati," " Sons of the Revolution," " Society of the 
War of 1 8 12," 'Axtec Society," "Loyal Legion," and 
" Grand Army of the Republic." 

The joint resolution of Congress is as follows : 

I. Joint Resolution granting permission to officers and 
enlisted men of the Army and Navy of the United States to 
wear badges adopted by Military Societies of the Men who 
served in the War of the Revolution, War of 18 12, the 
Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America, in Congress assembled: 

That the distinctive badges adopted by Military Societies 
of Men who served in the armies and navies of the United 
States, in the War of the Revolution, the War of 18 12, the 
Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion, respectively, 
may be worn upon all occasions of ceremony by officers and 
enlisted men of the Army and Navy of the United States, 
who are members of said organizations in their own right. 

Approved September 25, 1890. 




IU)N. DAMKL NASH MOKCiAN, Bridgeport, Ch.n.n. 
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ROSTER 

OF 

Ancestors and Descendant 
Members 

OF THE 

SOCIETY 
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

State of Connecticut 
1913-14 



37 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 



39 



ROSTER 

OF 

ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 



ALLEN, MOSES, Private. 1746-1826. 

Private Fifth Regiment Connecticut Line July i to December 
16, 1780. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 
203.) 

171 Allen, Normand Francis, Hartford, Conn. 

AVERY, NATHAN. 1744-1832. Groton, Conn. 

Corporal in Captain Ralph Stoddard's Company, Colonel Oliver 
Smith's Eighth Regiment of Militia for six months from 
September, 1776; served in Captain John Morgan's Company, 
Colonel Oliver Smith's Eighth Regiment of Militia, 1781. 

(Certificate of Commissioner of Pensions; Revolutionary 
Rolls and Lists, Connecticut Hist. Coll, Volume 8, p. 216.) 

124 Parker, Francis Hubert, Hartford, Conn. 

BALDWIN, HENRY. . Cornwall, Conn. 

Private Sixth Company, Captain Edward Shipman, Seventh Con- 
necticut Continental Regiment, Colonel Charles Webb, July 
II, December 18, 1775. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 82.) 

38 HoTCHKiss, Frank Howard, Thomaston, Conn. 
Died September 6, 1908. 

BALDWIN, NATHAN, Lieutenant. 175 5- 1805. 

Appointed Lieutenant with the command of the Fort at Milford, 
and also empowered to cruise in the Sound with the boat be- 
longing to the fort, 1782. 



40 ^ONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 631.) 
24 Baldwin, Wilson Leslie, Stamford, Conn. 

BARLOW, AARON, Ensign. 1750-1800. 

Private Tenth Company, Captain Zalmon Read, Fifth Con- 
necticut Continental Regiment, Colonel David Waterbury; 
discharged November 28, 1775; Ensign Captain John Gray's 
Company, Colonel Samuel Whiting's Regiment Connecticut 
Militia; October 5-October 19, 1777. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 71, 516.) 

52 Barlow, Samuel J., Waterbury, Conn. Died Novem- 
ber 28, 1899. 

BECKWITH, JASON. 1764-1821. New London, Conn. 

Enlisted April 23, 1781, Captain Charles Miel's Company, 
General Waterbury's State Brigade. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 571.) 
172 Walter St. George Harris, Hartford, Conn. 

BELL, THADDEUS, Sergeant. 1759-1851. 

Private Captain Gregory's Company, Colonel Sellman's Regi- 
ment, March-April, 1776; private Eleventh Company, Cap- 
tain Jonathan Bell, Ninth Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
Lieutenant-Colonel John Mead commanding, in the service 
at New York, August 13-September 11, 1776; private in same 
company in service on the Westchester border October 24- 
December 24, 1776; private same company. Captain Eli Reed, 
in service on the Westchester border December 27, 1776- 
January 8, 1777; private same company in service January- 
March, 1777; private First Company, Captain Jesse Bell, 
same regiment. Colonel John Mead, March-September, 1777; 
engaged at Ridgefield April 27, and at Compo April 28, 1777.* 
Sergeant Eleventh Company, Captain Eli Reed, same regi- 
ment, in service March-June, 1778, and July, 1779, January, 
1780; engaged at Fairfield July 8, and at Norwalk July 12, 
1779; Sergeant same company. Captain Nathaniel Slason, in 
service April- June, 1780, and June-July, 1781; taken prisoner 
with the congregation of the Church at Middlesex July 22, 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 41 

1781; released December, 1781; Sergeant, Captain Jesse 
Bell's company, same regiment. Colonel Steven St. John, 
April-October, 1782. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 456, 487, 
488, 650, 662. His application for the pension which he 
received ; statement Wm. Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, 
on file.) 

25 Bell, Clarence Winthrop, Darien, Conn. 
BIGELOW, ASA. 1755-1830. 

Private, April, 1775, Lexington Alarm, 10 days' service. As- 
sistant Commissary to Colonel Champion, the Commissary- 
General; he went several times into New Jersey, Pennsyl- 
vania, and Virginia; enlisted August 3, 1778, Captain Na- 
thaniel Pomeroy's Company, Colonel Samuel Champion's 
Regiment; was discharged September 18, 1778. They en- 
gaged in the attempt to dislodge the British at Newport and 
were present at the battle of Rhode Island, August 29, 1778. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 531.) 
134 BiGELow, Henry Waite, Allston, Mass. 

BILLINGS, PELEG. 1738-1779. Preston, Conn. 

Marched from Preston for the relief of Boston, 1775; enlisted 
on first call for troops, April, 1775 in the Seventh Company 
Sixth Regiment, and served in Northern Department under 
General Schuyler from May 6 to December 12; private in 
Captain Caulkins' Company, Colonel Lattimer's Regiment, 
General Poor's Brigade, Arnold's Division, August 24 to 
October 30, 1777, and was engaged in battles September 19 
and October 9, 1777, at Saratoga; enlisted May 20, 1778, 
Third Regiment Connecticut Line and was discharged Januu- 
ary i, 1779, and died before reaching home. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 76, 171, 
505.) 

194 Reynolds, Harry Wilson, East Haddam, Conn. 
166 Reynolds^. V/'-^on C, East Haddam, Conn. 



42 ^ONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

BIRDSEYE, JOSEPH. 1740-1817. 

Captain Colonel Whiting's Regiment, 4th Militia, commanded 
by Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Dimon, October, 1777; en- 
listed October 5, discharged October 31; was Captain in 
Colonel Whiting's Regiment at New Haven and Fairfield, 
Conn., in July, 1779, during Tryon's Invasion of Connecticut. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 515, 518, 
548, 550. " Orcutt's History of Stratford," pages 381, 
1107.) 

98 BiRDSEYE, Isaac Washington, Bridgeport, Conn. 
BRADLEY, LEVI. 1758-1829. 

Private Fairfield Coast Guard, November 4, 1776-February 7, 
1777; Private, " Danbury Alarm," April, 1777; engaged at 
Ridgefield. 

(MS. Records Fairfield Coast Guard in Pequot Li- 
brary, Southport; "Connecticut Men in the Revolution," 
page 629.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood, Southport, Conn. A 
founder of the Connecticut Society. 

BRADLEY, SETH, Ensign. 1735-1798. 

Ensign Thirteenth Company, Captain Samuel Walceman, Fourth 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Gold Selleck Silli- 
man. May, 1774-January, 1778; appointed Ensign Captain 
Eliphalet Thorp's Company, First Battalion Connecticut 
State Troops, Colonel Samuel Whiting, November, 1776; 
resigned. 

(" Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 14, page 
266; "State Record of Connecticut," Volume i, pages 67, 
486; "Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 424.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood, Southport, Conn. A 
founder of the Connecticut Society. 

BR ADSTREET, JOHN. 1 7 1 8 . Ipswich, Mass. 

Private Captain Moses Jewett's Troop of Horse, Third Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Militia, Colonel John Baker, Lexington 
Alarm April, 1775; three days' service; private Captain 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 



43 



Thomas Mighill's Company, Thirty-eighth Regiment, Col- 
onel Loamun Baldwin, April 23-December, 1775; private 
Captain Thomas Mighill's Company, Twenty-sixth Regi- 
ment, January, 1776. 

(MS. Revolutionary War Archives of Massachusetts, 
Volume 12, page 163; Volume 15, page 64; Volume 56, page 
257; Volume 57, file 27; Volume 58, file 3, page 2; certificate 
of Wm. M. Olin, Secretary of State of Massachusetts, on 
file.) 

35 Bradstreet, Thomas Dudley, Thomaston, Conn, 
BROOKS, SIMEON. 1740-1819. 

Private; enlisted May 8, 1775, Captain Ely's Company, Sixth 
Regiment of Connecticut; discharged October 11, 1775; Col- 
onel Samuel H. Parsons; enlisted June-July, 1776, Captain 
Stevens' Company, Colonel Mott's Battalion; served under 
General Gates at Ticonderoga; retired November, 1776; 
enlisted October 6, 1777, Captain Bristol's Company, Colonel 
Whiting's Regiment, Fourth Connecticut Militia; served at 
Peelcskill in October, 1777; discharged December 6, 1777. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 77, 390, 
521.) 
113 Abbey, Elmer B., Hartford, Conn. 

BROV^N, SHUBEL. 1761-1836. 

Private in Colonel Samuel Canfield's Regiment at West Point, 
September, 1781, from Pomfret, Conn. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 583.) 
134 BiGELOw, Henry Waite, Allston, Mass. 

BRUSH, BENJAMIN. 

Ensign Captain Charles Smith's Company, Ninth Regiment of 
Militia; marched November 10, 1776; discharged January 
II, 1777. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 489. Ad- 
jutant-General's Certificate on file with application.) 

112 Knapp, Edwin Augustus. Died April 17, 1907. 
Greenwich, Conn. 



44 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



BULKELEY, ELIPHALET, Lieutenant-Colonel. 1746- 
1816. 

Captain Third Company, Twelfth Regiment Connecticut Mili- 
tia, Colonel Wm. Williams, May, 1773; eleven days in serv- 
ice, Lexington Alarm April, 1775; appointed May, 1776, 
Captain Colonel David Waterbury's Regiment Connecticut 
State Troops; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel Twenty-fifth 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Elias Worthington, 
May, 1780; Deputy to the General Court of Colchester, 
October, 1778, and January, 1779. 

("Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 14, page 
90; Volume 15, page 300; " Connecticut Men in the Revo- 
ution," pages 7, 440; " State Records of Connecticut," Vol- 
ume 2, pages 122, 130, 170.) 

34 BuLKELEY, Morgan Gardner, Hon. Hartford, Conn. 

57 BuLKELEY, William Henry. General. Hartford. 
Conn. Died Nov. 7, 1902. 

60 Bulkeley, William Eliphalet Adams, Hartford, 
Conn. 

BULKLEY, GERSHOM. 1750-1791. 

Private Eighth Company, Captain Jonathan Dimon, Fourth Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Gold Selleck Silliman, 
May, 1776; private in same company in service in New York, 
1776; in service in Fairfield Coast Guard May 30-November 
I, 8, 27, 1776, January 27-February 10, 1777, and in 1777, 
1778, and 1779, three months in each year, and in 1780, six 
months, and also in 1781 and 1782; private, " Danbury 
Alarm," April, 1777, also in service at the burning of Fair- 
field, July 8, 1779. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 616; MS. 
muster roll in possession of Cyrus S. Bradley, Southport; MS. 
Records Fairfield Coast Guard, in Pequot Library, Southport ; 
application of his widow, Amelia Bulkeley, for the pension 
which she received; statement of Greene B. Raum, Commis- 
sioner of Pensions, on file.) 



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45 



Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood. A Founder of the Con- 
necticut Society. Southport, Conn. 

Wakeman, Jesup. a Founder of the Connecticut 
Society. Died April 3, 1904. 

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, Lieutenant-Colonel. 173 1- 
1807. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Sixth Regiment, Lincoln County, Massa- 
chusetts Militia, 1776-1777. 

(MS. Records State of Massachusetts, Volume 28, page 
103; Volume 26, page 28; certificate of Wm. M. Olin, 
Secretary of State, on file.) 

59 Wakefield, Walter Leslie, Hartford, Conn. 

CAMPBELL, JAMES, 20. 1753-1835. 

Private Captain John Perry's Company Massachusetts Militia, 
Lexington Alarm, April, 1775; private Captain John Perry's 
Company, Colonel Timothy Walker's Regiment Massachu- 
setts Militia, April 28, 1775; served three months one week 
and four days; private Captain John Perry's Company, 
Twenty-second Massachusetts Regiment, Colonel Timothy 
Walker, October 6, 1775; served eight months. 

(" Records State of Massachusetts," Volume 13, page 
31; Volume 16, page 2; Volume 56, page 136.) 

85 Campbell, James, M.D., Hartford, Conn. Died 
Oct. 17, 1899. 

CHAFFEE, ABIEL. 1761-1847. 

Private Captain John McGregier's Company, Fourth Regiment 
"Connecticut Line," formation of 1777-1781, Colonel John 
Durkee, July, 1779-January, 1780; private Captain William 
Judd's Company, Third Regiment " Connecticut Line," 
formation of 1777-1781, Colonel Samuel Wyllys, July i- 
December 11, 1780; private Captain Timothy Allyn's Com- 
pany, Third Regiment " Connecticut Line," formation of 
1 78 1-1783, Colonel Samuel Blatchley Webb, February 6, 
1 78 1 February, 1782. 



46 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages i8o, 333, 
633, 663 ; his application for the pension which he received ; 
statement of Wm. Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, on 
file.) 

29 BowEN, James Barton, Putnam, Conn. Died March 
9, 1907- 

CHAMPION, HENRY, Colonel. Colchester, Conn. 
1723-1797. 

Lieutenant May i to December 10, 1775, Eighth Company, Cap- 
tain Levi Wells' Colchester Second Regiment, Colonel Joseph 
Spencer: Captain First Connecticut Line, January i, 1777; 
served as Brigadier-Major First Connecticut Brigade, January 
I to May 13, 1779: Captain, Commissioned January i, 1777, 
Acting Major of Merg's Third Regiment, First Battalion, at 
Storming of Stony Point, July 15, 1779, resigned May i, 
1780: Colonel, appointed Commissary April, 1775, in Jan- 
uary, 1778, was appointed by Colonel Colt sole purchaser of 
beef, etc., in the Eastern Department, reappointed by the 
State April, 1780; one of the most efficient of the Commis- 
saries; promoted for Lieutenant-Colonel of Twelfth Regi- 
ment, October, 1775; appointed General Commissary and 
resigned in 1777: Colonel, serving as Commissary Twenty- 
fifth Regiment under Brigadier-General Saltonstall, campaign 
around New York, 1776. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 50, 142, 
169, 241, 242, 431, 440, 450, 655.) 

169 Perkins, Julius Deming, Jr., Litchfield, Conn. Died 
February 5, 1909. 

CHAPIN, EPHRAIM, of Chicopee, Mass. 1729-1805. 

Commissioned Captain June 13, 1776, Eighth Company First 
Hampshire County Regiment and served under General 
Gates in the Northern Department 3 months, 21 days. 

(" Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of 
the Revolution.") Volume III, page 310. 

202 Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Hartford, Conn. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 47 

CHENEY, TIMOTHY, Captain. 1731-1795. 

Captain Lexington Alarm, from town of Hartford, April, 1775. 
(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 13.) 
67 Cheney, James Woodbridge, South Manchester, Conn. 

CLARK, ELIPHALET. 1756 . Salisbury, Conn. 

Private Captain Charles Pond's Company, Sixth Regiment, " Con- 
necticut Line," formation of 1777-1781, Colonel Return 
Jonathan Meigs, October, 1777-May 2, 1780, substitute for 
his brother, Samuel Clark, who had enlisted on May 2, 1777, 
for three years; engaged at storming of Stony Point, July 
15, 1779. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 209, 641 ; 
his application for the pension he received ; statement of Wm. 
Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, on file.) 

4 Foster, Chauncey Smith, -West Winsted, Conn. A 
Founder of the Connecticut Society. 

CLINTON, JAMES, Brigadier-General. 1736-1812. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
Appointed Colonel Third New York Regiment, June 30, 1775, 
and accompanied General Montgomery to Quebec; August 
9, 1776, was made Brigadier-General and was in command 
at Fort Clinton when it was attacked, in October, 1777, by 
the British, under Sir Henry Clinton ; was a member of the 
New York Convention that ratified the Constitution of the 
United States. 
123 Jones, Walter Clinton, Middletown, Conn. 

COLTON, BENJAMIN, Jr. 1722-1808. Longmeadow, 
Mass. 
Served in Captain James Warringer's Company, April 19, 1775; 
marched to Lexington ; served ten days. 

(Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution, 
Volume 3, page 842.) 
189 Moore, James Bunce, Hartford, Conn. 

COLTON, JOSEPH. 1744-1779. Wilbraham, Mass. 
Served in Captain Daniel Caldwell's Company, Colonel Robin- 
son's Regiment, December 25, 1776 to April 2, 1777; Sergeant 



48 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Captain Abel King's Company, Colonel Sears* Regiment, 
August 20, 1 78 1 to November 20, 1781, at Saratoga. 

(Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in Revolution, Vol- 
ume 3, p. 847.) 

189 Moore, James Bunce, Hartford, Conn. 



COMSTOCK. PETER. 1731-1803. Montville, Conn. 

Commissioned Captain of the Thirteenth Company, Third 
Regiment, October 21, 1778. Was stationed at Fort Trum- 
bull, Nevv^ London, Conn. 

(" Records State of Connecticut," 1 778-1 780, Volume 2, 
page 142; "Year Book, Connecticut" S. A. R., 1900-1903, 
page 537; Baker's "History of Montville," page 141-142; 
Hurd's " Nevv^ London County," page 243.) 

172 Harris, Walter St. George, Hartford, Conn. 



COTTON, ROWLAND, Sergeant. 1757-1848. 

Private Captain Stephen Brown's Company, Fourth Regiment 
"Connecticut Line," Colonel John Durkee, April 20, 1777; 
appointed Corporal September i, 1777, discharged April 20, 
1780; Sergeant Captain Lemuel Clift's Company, First Regi- 
ment " Connecticut Line," Colonel John Durkee, January 
17, 1781-December 31, 1781 ; Sergeant on roll of Susque- 
hanna Men, in First Connecticut Continental Regiment. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 186, 319, 
626; certified copy of statement of Colonel F. C. Ainsworth, 
U. S. Army, Chief of Record and Pension Office, War Depart- 
ment, on file.) 

75 Cotton, Charles Stanhope, Rear Admiral U. S. N. 

Died February, 1909. 
71 Cotton, Charles Stanhope, Jr., Seattle, Wash. 

COUCH, SIMON. 1729-1809. 

Authorized to raise recruits for the Continental Army, 1 781. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 49 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 629.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood. A Founder of the Con- 
necticut Society. Southport, Conn. 

6 Sherwood, Simon Couch, Southport, Conn. Died 
March, 1906. 

COUCH, SIMON, Corporal. 1755-1807. 

Corporal Captain Ezekiel Hull's Company, Third Regiment 
Light Horse, Major Ezra Starr; honorably discharged June 
9, 1783- 

(Original MS. discharge in possession of Cyrus Sher- 
wood Bradley, Southport.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood, Southport, Conn. A 
Founder of the Connecticut Society. 

6 Sherwood, Simon Couch. Died March, 1906. 
Southport, Conn. 

CRANE, JOHN. 

Captain Colonel Henry Luddington's Seventh Regiment of 
Dutchess County, New York, Militia, General Swartwout's 
Brigade, 1 776-1 780. 

(Statement of Record and Pension Office, War Depart- 
ment, Washington, D. C, on file with application.) 

112 Knapp, Edwin Augustus. Died April 17, 1907. 
Greenwich, Conn. 

CULVER, DAVID. New London, Conn. 1738-18 14. 

Sergeant in Captain Herman's Company. Enlisted January 
I, 1777, discharged December 31, I779; Fourth Regiment 
" Connecticut Line," Colonel John Durkee ; served from July 
I, 1780 to December 10, 1780 Eighth Regiment " Connecticut 
Line," Colonel John Chandler; enlisted January 10, 1778, 
Captain Daniel Dewey's Company, Colonel Obadiah John- 
son's Regiment and served in the State of Rhode Island for 
two months. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 183, 239, 
529-) 

197 Wickham, Clarence Horace, Hartford, Conn. 
4 



50 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

DAVIS, AARON, Colonel. 1709-1777. 

Captain Massachusetts Militia, 1775; later Colonel Massachu- 
setts Militia; member Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 
1774-1775; member Massachusetts General Court, 1775- 
1776. 

("Journals Provincial Congress," W. Lincoln, 1838; 
Drake's " History of Roxbury," 1878.) 

48 Chase, Charles Francis. New Britain, Conn. 
DEAN, EPHRAIM. 1759-1804. 

Private Captain Boyd's Company of Drake's Regiment New 
York Troops, 1775. 

(Archives State of New York; " The Revolution," under 
Title " Roster of State Troops," pages 355-6.) 

54 Dean, George William, Stamford, Conn. Died Jan- 
uary 28, 1908. 

DEMING, JULIUS, Captain. 1755-1838. 

Captain Commissary Department under Colonel Henry Cham- 
pion; pensioner under Act of 1832. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 630, 653.) 

63 Deming, Julius, Litchfield, Conn. Died December 
30, 1902. 

DIMON, JOHN. 1730-1777. 

Private " Danbury Alarm," April, 1777; taken prisoner; taken 
to New York and died there. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 493; MS. 
Records of the Probate Court of Fairfield, Volume, 1778- 
1781, page 164.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood, Southport, Conn. A 
Founder of the Connecticut Society. 

DIX(S) ON, JAMES. 1728. 

Private Lieutenant-Colonel Ebenezer Gray's Company, Sixth 
Regiment Connecticut, enlisted September i, 1780; Private, 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 51 

Sixth Company, Fourth Connecticut Regiment; Private, 
Second Company, Second Connecticut Regiment. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 342, 
362.) 

134 BiGELow, Henry Waite, Allston, Mass. 

DOUGLASS, William, Colonel. 1 742-1 777. 

Commissioned May i, 1775, Captain Sixth Company First Con- 
necticut Continental Regiment, Major-General David Woos- 
ter; appointed May, 1775, Major Second Regiment Connecti- 
cut Militia, Colonel Jonathan Fitch; resigned October, 1776; 
appointed June 13, 1775, Aide-de-Camp to General Woos- 
ter; discharged December, 1775 ; appointed January u, 1776, 
by Council of Safety, Major Colonel Andrew Ward's Regi- 
ment, Connecticut State Troops; discharged February, 1776; 
appointed May, 1776, Major Colonel Andrew Ward's Con- 
tinental Regiment, but did not serve; commissioned June 20, 
1776, Colonel Fifth Battalion, Brigadier-General James 
Wadsworth's State Brigade; discharged January 4, 1777; 
commissioned January i, 1777, Colonel Sixth Regiment 
" Connecticut Line " ; died from effects of previous service, 
May 28, 1777; Deputy to the General Court of Branford, 
May, 1776. 

("Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 14, page 
423; Volume 15, pages 42, 225, 270, 300, 422, 428; "State 
Records of Connecticut," Volume i, pages 28, 13, 400, 558; 
"Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 37, 41, 127, 
205, 387, 392, 406, 432.) 

DowD, Frank Curtis, Madison, Conn. A Founder of 
of the Connecticut Society. 

EASTMAN, STEPHEN. 17 19-1797. 

Drummer on muster roll of Captain Moses McFarland's Com- 
pany, Colonel John Mixin's Regiment, dated August i, 1775; 
enlisted April 30, 1775; December 20, 1775. 

("Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls," Volume XV, 
page 62; Volume LXVI, page 21; Volume LXVII, file 
3.) 
141 Eastman, George Larnard, Danbury, Conn. 



52 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



ELLSWORTH, SOLOMON, Lieutenant. 1737-1822. 

Lieutenant Second Company in East Windsor, Captain Lemuel 
Stoughton, Nineteenth Regiment Connecticut Militia, Col- 
onel Erastus Wolcott, 1775; seven days in service Lexington 
Alarm, April, 1775. 

("Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 14, page 
273; "Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 10.) 

7 Cornwall, Nathaniel Ellsworth, Reverend. Strat- 
ford, Conn. Founder. 

ELWOOD, THOMAS. Lieutenant. . 



Private Captain David Dimon's Company, Lexington Alarm; 
seven days in service, April, 1775; private Fourth Company, 
Captain David Dimon's Fifth Connecticut Continental Regi- 
ment, Colonel David Waterbury, May lO-December 14, 
1775; Lieutenant of Marines on Frigate Alliance, Captain 
Peter Landais, afterwards Captain Barry, August 24, 1778; 
retired from service May i, 1783. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 11, 67; 
other references on file with New York Society.) 

Fairchild, Thomas Benjamin, Stratford, Conn. A 
Founder of the Connecticut Society. Died February 
7, 1897. 

FAXON, EBENEZER. 1749-1811. 

Private. August 15, 1776, name appears on muster roll of Lieu- 
tenant Charles Seymour's Company, also on Lexington 
Alarm list, April, 1775. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 13. 
" Connecticut Historical Society Collections," Volume viii, 
page 274. History of the Faxon family, page 114.) 

144 Faxon, Walter Collyer, Hartford, Conn. 

FILER, ROGER (or Tyler sometimes spelt). 1778. 

Private Captain Fitch Bissell's Company, Seventeenth Connecti- 
cut Continental Regiment, Colonel Jedediah Huntington, 
1776. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 53 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 102; Stiles' 
" Ancient Windsor," Volume 2, pages 276, 298 ; " Steven 
Hart and His Descendants," pages 190, 224, 747, 869, 1104.) 

183 Hart, Harrie E., New Britain, Conn. 
FILER, THOMAS. i739-i777- 

Private. Enlisted November i, 1776, in Second Company of the 
Fourth Regiment, New York Line; was killed near Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y., October 31, i777- 

(Archives of State of New York, " The Revolution," 
Volume I, page 21 1. Year Book. Empire State Society 
Sons of the American Revolution, 1899, pages 199, 428.) 
128 DiMON, John Nicoll, New London, Conn. 

FLINT, JAMES L. Windham, Conn. 

Private Sixth Regiment " Connecticut Line," Colonel William 
Douglass; enlisted May i, 1778, Captain David Humphrey's 
Company, promoted to Corporal December, 1 780; Sergeant 
January i, 1781, Fourth Regiment "Connecticut Line," 
Colonel Zebulon Butler, to December 31, 1781. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 210, 340.) 
177 George W. Flint, Danbury, Conn. 

FLOYD, WILLIAM, Colonel. 1 734-1 821. 

Member Continental Congress, 1774-1783; Signer Declaration 
of Independence; member New York Provincial Convention, 
April 20, 1775; Colonel First Regiment, Suffolk County 
(New York) Militia, 1775; member New York Council of 
Safety, 1777; member New York Senate, 1777-1788. 

("Lanman's Biographical Annals of the Civil Govern- 
ment of the U. S.," pages 149, 487 ; " Civil List State of New 
York," Series 1889-91, pages 113, "6, 416; " Archives of the 
State of New York," Volume 1, page 287.) 

Delafield, Augustus Floyd, Noroton, Conn. A 
Founder of the Connecticut Society. Died July 18, 
1904. 



54 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



FOSTER, JOSEPH. 1762-1846. Hampton, Conn. 

Joseph Foster was one of twelve sons who, with their father, 
Timothy Foster, enlisted for service from Dudley, Mass. 
Joseph Foster was fourteen years of age at time of enlist- 
ment and served as a fifer. Enlisted July i, 1780. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 465, 657.) 
152 Louis W. Button, Rocky Hill, Conn. 

FOWLER, MOSES. 

Private Captain Jacob Purdy's Company, Second Regiment of 
Westchester Militia, Colonel Thomas Thomas, June 9, 1779. 

("Treasurer's Certificates," Volume 3, State of New 
York, page 2.) 

112 Knapp, Edwin Augustus, Greenwich, Conn. Died 
April 17, 1907. 

FRANCIS, JOHN. 1744-1824. 

Sergeant Captain Hezekiah Wells' Company of Wethersfield, 
Colonel Erastus Wolcott's Regiment, January to March, 
1776; Private Captain Chester Wells' Company, Colonel 
Belden's Regiment, April lo to May 22, 1777; Ensign Cap- 
tain Nathaniel Bunnell's Company, Colonel Roger Enos' 
Regiment, June, 1777; Second Lieutenant Captain Elijah 
Wright's Company, Colonel Enos' Regiment, June 29, 1778; 
Lieutenant Captain Samuel Granger's Company, Colonel 
Levi Wells' Regiment, 1780; Captain of First Company of 
Wethersfield in Provisional Regiment, 1781. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 383, 497, 
539, 586, 614, 615. " Records of State of Connecticut," Vol- 
ume I, pages 255, 256, 466; Volume 2, pages 29, 91, 284, 
459, 533- " Boardman Genealogy," page 586, 614, 615. 
" History Hartford County," pages 475, 476.) 

147 Boardman, William Francis Joseph, Hartford, 
Conn. Died November 23, 19 12. 

FRANKLIN, HENRY. 1741-1800. Amherst, Mass. 

Sergeant in Lieutenant Noah Dickinson's Company which 
marched from Amherst, Massachusetts, to Cambridge, Lexing- 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 55 

ton Alarm, April 19, 1775, service nine days; Sergeant in Cap- 
tain Reuben Dickinson's Company, Colonel Charles Porter's 
Regiment, from the County of Hampshire, Massachusetts, 
which marched to Stillwater, September 23, 1777; enlisted 
September 23, 1777; discharged October 24, 1777. 

(" Massachusetts Military Rolls," Roll 44, Volume 12 to 
Volume 18, page 197.) 

162 Henry Hervey Hills, Hartford, Conn. 

FULLER, JOHN, Captain. 1731-1801. 

Captain Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Massachusetts Regiment, 
1775-1782. 

(MS. " Revolutionary War Archives of Massachusetts," 
Volume 14, page 85; Volume 28, page 62; Volume 51, page 
89; " MS. Archives of Massachusetts," Volume 146, page 83; 
Volume 147, page 156; Volume 148, page 115.) 

28 Heaton, John Edward, New Haven, Conn. 

GARRETT, JOHN V^AIT, Major. 1778. 

Appointed Lieutenant First Company, Twenty-fourth (West- 
moreland) Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Zebulon 
Butler, October, 1775; promoted Captain October, 1776; 
promoted Major October, 1777; killed in action at Wyom- 
ing July 3, 1778. 

("Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 15, page 
152; "State Records of Connecticut," Volume i, pages 31, 
430; "Connecticut Men in the Revoution," page 440.) 

2 Gates, Howard Eugene, M.D. A Founder of the 
Connecticut Society. Died November 9, 1908. 

GATES, JOHN. 1764-1839. St. Albans, Vt. 

Enlisted Marlboro, Massachusetts, age 16, in Colonel Benjamin 
Tupper's Regiment and served to the close of the war. 

(Volume XIV, " 1896 Lineage Book National Society 
Daughters of the American Revolution," page 17.) 

168 James Wilder Gilson, Racine, Wis. 



56 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

GLENNY, WILLIAM, Lieutenant. 1 760-1 800. 

Sergeant Fourth Regiment " Connecticut Line," formation of 
1 777-1 78 1, Colonel John Durkee, January i, 1777; pro- 
moted Ensign Captain John Durkee's Company, First Regi- 
ment "Connecticut Line," formation of 1781-1783, Colonel 
John Durkee; Ensign First Regiment "Connecticut Line," 
formation of January-June, 1783, Colonel Zebulon Butler; 
promoted Lieutenant, Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment 
"Connecticut Line," final formation, June-December, 1783; 
member Society of the Cincinnati, 1783. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 183, 320, 
359, 368, 373-) 

77 French, Louis, Reverend, Noroton, Conn. Died Sep- 
tember 29, 19 1 2. 

88 French, Louis Mardenbrough, Noroton, Conn. 
GOODRICH, ELIZUR. 1 730-1 785. 

Private Ninth Company of Wethersfield Second Regiment, Cap- 
tain John Chester, Colonel Joseph Spencer, at Battle of 
Bunker Hill; enlisted May 15, 1775; discharged December 
17, 1775; Third Company, Captain Selah Heart's Company, 
Colonel Wolcott's Regiment, from January to March, 1776; 
Sergeant of Lieutenant David Smith's Company, Sixth Regi- 
ment, Colonel Thomas Belden; enlisted April 13, discharged 
May 19, 1777; served on committee appointed by the Town 
of Wethersfield to purchase articles requested by the Gover- 
nor and Council for the use of the Continental Army raised in 
this State and forward same to Elisha Hubbard, Commissary ; 
also to borrow money to pay bounties offered by the Town, 
etc. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 51, 383, 
496. Hinman's " Connecticut in the War of the Revolu- 
tion," page 292. " Goodrich Genealogy," page 76. Wethers- 
field Town Records. " Boardman Genealogy," pages 400, 
694, 605.) 

147 Boardman, William Francis Joseph, Hartford, 
Conn. Died November 23, 191 2. 



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57 



GOODYEAR, THEOPHILUS, Corporal. 1731-1793. 

Private Third Company, Captain Samuel Peck, Fifth Battalion, 
Colonel William Douglass, Brigadier-General James Wads- 
worth's State Brigade, 1776; Corporal Captain Joseph Mans- 
field's Company, Sixth Regiment " Connecticut Line," Forma- 
tion of 1777-1781, Colonel William Douglass, April i, 1777- 
December 31, 1779; invalid pensioner. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 207, 408, 
649.) 

28 Heaton, John Edward^ New Haven, Conn. 

GOULD, EBENEZER. 1760-1809. 

Private Captain Job Knap's Company Massachusetts Militia, in 
service at Rhode Island February 28-March 15, 1781. 

(" MS. Revolutionary War Archives of Massachusetts," 
Volume 2, page 175; certificate of Wm. M. Olin, Secretary 
of State of Massachusetts, on file.) 

45 Gould, David Henry, New York. 
GOULD, ELEAZER, Sergeant. 1720 . 



Sergeant Captain Caleb Whiting's Company Massachusetts Mili- 
tia; ten days in service Lexington Alarm, April, 1775. 

(" MS. Revolutionary War Archives of Massachusetts," 
Volume 13, page 167; certificate of Wm. M. Olin, Secretary 
of State of Massachusetts, on file.) 

45 Gould, David Henry, New York. 
GREENE, JAMES. 1 728-1 809. 

Captain. Was Senior Captain of the Second Regiment of Light 
Horse of Connecticut, and was present with them at New 
York in September, 1776, also at Saratoga and the capture 
of Burgoyne in 1777 and later did duty in Rhode Island 
and often in the State. Nathan Hale, while teaching at East 
Haddam, Conn., 1773-4, lived at the house of Captain James 
Greene, and Richard Greene, the son, was a scholar of Nathan 
Hale in the old schoolhouse. 



58 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

(" Munson Genealogy," II 762. " Winslow Geneal- 
ogy," I, 104. " Lineage Book, D. A. R.," IV, 25.) 

119 Warner, Charles Belden. 

122 BoARDMAN, Eugene, East Haddam, Conn. 

GRIFFING, DANIEL. Southhold, N. Y. 1736-1823. 

Captain Third Regiment, New York Line, Colonel James Clin- 
ton, June 28, 1775-April 27, 1776; Captain Second Regi- 
ment, New York Line, Colonel James Clinton, stationed at 
Fort Montgomery, January 18, 1777; Captain in command of 
armed vessel "Revenge," April 2, 1778; refugee from Long 
Island to Guilford, Conn., in 1776. 

(New York State Archives (" New York in Revolu- 
tion"), Volume I, pages 40, 71, 97, 98, 145, 254, 528.) 

205 Gripping, Robert A., Hartford, Conn. 
HALLETT, JOSEPH. 1731-1799. 

Member of New York Committee of One Hundred, May i, 
1775; member of New York Provincial Congress, 1775-6. 

(" Civil List, State of New York," Series 1889-91, pages 
114, 452-3; "Archives of the State of New York," Volume 
I, page 3-) 

Delafield, Augustus Floyd, Noroton, Conn. A 
Founder of the Connecticut Society. Died July 18, 
1904. 

HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, Brevet-Colonel. 1757- 
1804. 

Appointed Captain New York Provincial Artillery, March 14, 
1776; Aide-de-Camp to the Commander-in-Chief, with rank 
of Lieutenant-Colonel by Brevet, September 28, 1783, to 
end of war; member Society of the Cincinnati. 

(" Archives of the State of New York," Volume i, pages 
84, 244, etc. ; Heitman's " Register of Officers in the Con- 
tinental Army," page 206.) 

Rev. Alexander Hamilton, Dover Plains, N. Y. 
Founder. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 59 

HARRIS, NATHANIEL. 1743-1812. Colchester, 
Conn. 

Commissioned Captain Eleventh Company, Twelfth Connecticut 
Regiment, October 11, 1777. 

("Connecticut Historical Society Revolutionary Rec- 
ords," Volume 8, page 210. "Haskell's Receipts," page 75, 
at Comptroller's Office. " Year Book Connecticut S. A. R.," 
1900-1903, page 536-537. Original Commission in posses- 
sion of applicant.) 

172 Walter St. George Harris, Hartford, Conn. 

HICKOK, JOHN. 1734-18 10. 

Private Captain Daniel Benedict's Company, Ninth Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Mead, Au- 
gust I2-September 8, 1776; enlisted in same company under 
command of Lieutenant John Carter January 12, 1777; dis- 
charged January 25, 1777. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 459, 
485.) 

51 Warren, Henry Joseph, Stamford, Conn. 

HILL, EBENEZER. 

Private. Pensioner of the War of the Revolution. 
(Affidavits on file with application.) 

140 Crandall, Harvey LeMond, Farmington, Conn. 

HITCHCOCK, LEMUEL. 1749-1829. Cheshire, Conn. 

Private Ninth Company, First Regiment, General Wooster, 
1775; Second Lieutenant Eighth Regiment, Connecticut 
Line, January i, 1777; First Lieutenant Eighth Regiment, 
Connecticut Line, March 10, 1778; Sergeant Captain Bun- 
nell's Company, Wallingford, Conn., Fifth Battalion, Wads- 
worth's Brigade. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 43, 230, 
409, 643.) 

151 Hitchcock, Albert Emerson, Sunburst, Montana. 



,; 6o SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

HODGE, PHILO. 1756-1842. Roxbury, Conn. 

Private Captain Peter Perritt's Company, Nineteenth Conti- 
nental Regiment, Colonel Charles Webb, January, 1776-Janu- 
ary, 1777; private Captain Benjamin Hine's Company, Second 
Battalion Connecticut State Troops, Colonel Thaddeus Cook, 
January-April, 1777; also in service a few days in "Dan- 
bury Alarm," in Second Company, Captain Samuel Treat, 
Second Regiment Connecticut Militia, April, 1777. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 635, 663; 
his application for the pension which he received ; statement 
of Wm. Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, on file.) 

31 HoDGE^ Charles W., Roxbury Station, Conn. 
HOLBROOK, JOHN. 1726-1801. 

Member Derby Committee of Inspection, elected December 11, 
1775; member of committee to take care of soldiers' clothing, 
elected December 14, 1778. 

(" Derby Town Proceedings," Volume i, pages 106, 107, 
126, 127; certificate on file.) 

32 Johnson, Frederick Curtis, Colonel. Died Decem- 

ber 24, 1896. 

HOLCOMBE, ELIJAH. 1731 . 

Private Third Company, Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Enos, Sec- 
ond Connecticut Continental Regiment, Brigadier-General 
Joseph Spencer, May 7-December 19, 1775; private Captain 
James Judson's Company, Major John Skinner's Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, Light Horse, July 8-August 3, 1776; 
private Second Regiment Continental Light Dragoons, Col- 
onel Elisha Sheldon, January i, 1781-1783. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 47, 283, 
476.) 

Wessels, Henry Walton, Colonel. Founder and 
first Treasurer of the Connecticut Society Sons of the 
Revolution. Died September 26, 1909- 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 6l 

HOLMES, JABEZ, Sergeant. 1751-1817. 

Sergeant Captain William Stanton's Company, Eighth Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Smith, Sep- 
tember 8-November 17, 1776. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 453; 
Records Pension Office, War Department; certificate of 
Colonel F. C. Ainsworth, U. S. Army, Chief of Office, on 
file.) 

55 Holmes, George James, M.D., New Britain, Conn. 
Died 1907. 

HOTCHKISS, GIDEON. 17 16-1807. 

Member of the Committee of Inspection of the Town of Water- 
bury, 1776, 1777; acted as Commissary, procuring and con- 
ducting provisions and clothing to the American forces on the 
Hudson River, 1777; Captain of a company raised in and sent 
from Waterbury, to take part in the War of the Revolu- 
tion. 

("Anderson's History of Waterbury," Volume i, pages 
411, 460, 463.) 

80 Sanford, Frederick R., Reverend, Madison, Conn. 
HULL, JEDEDIAH. 173 2- 1796. 

First Lieutenant Captain Diamond's Company of Fairfield, May 
17, 1775. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution,") 
138 Pearce, Reuben Booth, Danbury, Conn. 

HULL, JOHN. 1732-1791. Fairfield, Conn. 

Lieutenant Fairfield Coast Guards, October 27, 1776-Nov. 8, 
1776; January 28, 1777. 

(Original Records of Coast Guards.) 

Jesup Wakeman, New York. A Founder of Connecti- 
cut Society Sons of Revolution. Died April 3, 
1904, New York City. 



62 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

HUMPHREY, JOSEPH, Sergeant. Simsbury, Conn. 
1743-1809. 

Sergeant of Lieutenant Job Case's Company in the Third Mili- 
tary Camp of the Eighteenth Regiment of Connecticut Militia, 
which arrived at New York August 24, 1776, and was dis- 
charged September 13, 1776. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 470, 
623.) 
191 James Humphrey Chalker, New York City. 

HUNT, RUSSELL. 1732-18—. 

Second Lieutenant Second Battalion, Thaddeus Cook, Colonel, 
John Watson, Captain. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 424.) 
121 Hunt, Charles Kellogg, Winsted, Conn. 

HUNTINGTON, JEDEDIAH, Brigadier-General. 1743- 
18 18. Norwich, Conn. 

Colonel Norwich Connecticut Militia, Lexington Alarm, April, 
1775; Colonel Eighth Connecticut Continental Regiment, 
July 6-September 10, 1775; Colonel Seventeenth Connecticut 
Continental Regiment, 1776; Colonel First Regiment " Con- 
necticut Line," formation of 1 777-1 781; Colonel Twentieth 
Regiment Connecticut Militia; Brigadier-General Conti- 
nental Army, May 12, 1777, to close of War. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 19, 36, 
85, 96, loi, 141, 145, 312, 439; Heitman's "Register of 
Officers of the Continental Army.") 

62 Huntington, Frederick Jabez, Norwich, Conn. 
HYDE, JOSEPH. 1761 . 

Private Fairfield Coast Guard nine months ; Private " Danbury 
Alarm"; engaged at Ridgefield; wounded at Compo; also in 
service at the burning of Fairfield, and at Norwalk. 

(Autograph statement and affidavit of Joseph Wakeman, 
dated October 19, 1838, both in possession of Simon Couch 
Sherwood.) 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 63 

6 Sherwood, Simon Couch, Southport, Conn. Died 
March, 1906. 

JACKMAN, ENOCH. 1752-1833. Salisbury, Mass. 
Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, Captain Merrill's Company, 
Colonel Caleb Cushing; December, 1775, Captain Page's 
Company, Colonel Titcomb's Regiment at Brookline, Siege 
of Boston; enlisted May, 1776, Captain Roger's Company; 
served as Corporal, Sergeant, 1778, Captain Clark's Company, 
Colonel Thorndike's Regiment. Pensioner under act 1732. 

(" Massachusetts Soldiers in Revolution," Archives, Vol- 
ume 13, page 206, Volume 19, page 55; "Certificate of 
Pensions," Volume 8, pages 655, 657.) 

186 Jackman, Elmer A., Hartford, Conn. 

JENNISON, JOHN, Captain. 1744-1804. 

First Lieutenant Captain Christopher Webber's Company, Col- 
onel Benjamin Bellow's Ntw Hampshire Regiment, March 
16, 1776; promoted Captain; in service till 1780. 

(" New Hampshire MS. State Papers," Volume 10, pages 
591, 593, 594, 595, 596, 599, 602, 603; Volume 14, page 
297; Volume 15, pages 23, 37; Volume 17, pages 528, 532.) 

28 Heaton, John Edward, New Haven, Conn. 

JESUP, EBENEZER, M.D., Ensign. 1739-18 12. 

Ensign Captain Thomas Nash's Company, in service of the Fourth 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan 
Dimon, at Peekskill, October 5-30, 1777. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 518.) 

6 Sherwood, Simon Couch, Southport, Conn. Died 
March, 1906. 

JOHNSON, ISAAC. 1758-1805. 

Private. Enlisted May 8, 1777, in Captain Humphrey's Com- 
pany, Sixth Regiment, "Connecticut Line." Transferred 
August I, 1 78 1, to First Regiment. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 212, 318.) 
149 Bradley, Seymour Percy, New Haven, Conn. 



64 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

JONES, JOHN, Lieutenant. 1739-18 17. 

Second Lieutenant Captain Noble Benedict's Company, Colonel 
Philip Burr Bradley's Battalion, Brigadier-General James 
Wadsworth's State Brigade, 1776. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 414.) 

3 Jones, John Smith, Westport, Conn. A Founder of 
the Connecticut Society. Died November 13, 1906. 

II Jones, Timothy, Danbury, Conn. Died July 21, 
1903. 

73 Miller, James Edmond, Danbury, Conn. Died June 
29, 1902. 

KEENLY, ALEXANDER, Jr. Manchester, Conn. 

Private Captain Timothy Cheney's Company of Hartford in the 
Lexington Alarm, April, 1775. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 13.) 

92 Fitz-Gerald, Ransom Ney. Hartford, Conn, Died 
September 3, 1905. 

KILBY, JOHN. Wethersfield, Conn. 1760-1842. 

Private, 1 777-1 778, " Captain Hezekiah Wells' Company of 
Infantry on foot," two months; eight months in Captain Wat- 
son's Company, Colonel Samuel B. Wells' Regiment; one 
month in Rhode Island, Captain Bissell's Company, August 
and September, 1778. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 249, 531, 
652, 659. Pension 31798.) 

208 Merritt, Fred Marshall, West Hartford, Conn. 

206 Merritt, George Prescott, Hartford, Conn. 

207 Merritt, George Sumner, Hartford, Conn. 

209 Merritt, Harry Clayton, Hartford, Conn. 

KIRTLAND, MARTIN. 1735 . Saybrook, Conn. 

Lieutenant Ninth Company, Colonel Parson's Sixth Regiment, 
from May i, 1775 to December 18, 1775; Captain Sixth 
Regiment at New London, February 28, 1777. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 65 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 73, 77, 
206.) 

154 Pratt, Charles William, Hartford, Conn. 

153 Pratt, Edward Burt, Hartford, Conn. 

KIRTLAND, NATHAN. Saybrook, Conn. 1 763-1 844. 

Enlisted at Saybrook, Conn., August, 1779, three months Private, 
Captain Elisha Chapman's Company, Colonel Worthington's 
Connecticut Regiment; enlisted June, 1780, and served one 
year in Captain Adam Shapley's Company, Colonel Ledyard's 
Connecticut Regiment. 

(Records Bureau of Pensions, Department of Interior 
Survivors' file 17526, Revolutionary War.) 

187 BusHNELL, William Redfield, Old Saybrook, Conn. 

KNAPP, HEZEKIAH. 1749-1840. Stamford, Conn. 

Private Captain Timothy Lockwood's Company, Colonel John 
Mead's Regiment; enlisted in July, 1778; served eighteen 
months; served as guard at Greenwich, Conn. 

(Statement of Department of the Interior, Bureau of 
Pensions, on file with application.) 

loi Judd, William Hawley, Stamford, Conn. 

KNAPP, JOSHUA. Greenwich, Conn. 

Private Captain Joseph Hubby's Company, Ninth Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, Colonel John Meade; enlisted November 11, 
1776; discharged January 11, 1777. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 491 ; State- 
ment of Record and Pension Office, War Department, Wash- 
ington, D. C, on file with application.) 

114 Knapp, Augustus, Greenwich, Conn. 

195 Knapp, Wilmer Augustus, Portchester, N. Y. 

LAWRENCE, JONATHAN, Brigade-Major. 

1802. 

Member New York Provincial Congress, 1775-1777; Brigade- 
Major Queens County, (New York) Militia, 1775; Licuten- 



66 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

ant Captain Nathaniel Tomm's Company, Colonel William 
Malcolm's Regiment Additional Continental Infantry, Janu- 
ary lo, 1777-April 22, 1779; Captain Lieutenant-Colonel H. 
K. Van Rensselaer's Regiment New York Levies, 1779; Cap- 
stain Colonel John Harper's Regiment New York Levies, May 
ii-November 30, 1780; Captain Sappers and Miners, June 
12, 1 78 1 -November 25, 1782. 

(" Civil List, State of New York," Series 1889-91, pages 
453-4; "Archives of the State of New York," Volume i, 
pages 4, 240, 256, 257, 286, 413.) 

Hamilton^ Alexander^ Reverend. Founder. Dover 

Plains, N. Y. 
Wayne, Henry N., Reverend. Founder. Armonk, 

N. Y. 

LINCOLN, STEPHEN. 1751-1840. 

Private August, 1778-February, 1779, in the Rhode Island cam- 
paign, in which General John Sullivan attempted, unsuccess- 
fully, the siege of Newport. 

(Records of Oakham, Mass.; certificate of Jesse Allen, 
Town Clerk, on file.) 
50 Lincoln, George Francis, Hartford, Conn. Died 

July 23, 1903. 
145 Lincoln, Frederick Miles, Hartford, Conn. 

LINN, JOSEPH. 1 725-1 800. Somerset Co., N. Y. 

Adjutant Second Regiment, Sussex County, N. J., throughout 
the Revolutionary War. This Regiment was in service from 
June 14, 1776, until September, 1776, part of Kurd's 
Brigade. 

(Official Register Officers and Men of New Jersey in 
Revolutionary War, pages 347, 372, 332, 336, 337, 338, 352, 
353, 354, 359, 393-) 
201 Linn, Edgar Chapin, Hartford, Conn. 
204 Fuller, Adrian Martin, Hartford, Conn. 

LYMAN, ELIHU, Ensign. 1760 . 

Ensign Captain Elihu Hubbard's Company Seventeenth Conti- 
nental Regiment, Colonel Jedediah Huntington, 1776; 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. (yj 

wounded and taken prisoner in action at Long Island Au- 
gust 27, 1776; exchanged May, 1778; member Society of the 
Cincinnati. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages loi, 376; 
"State Records of Connecticut," Volume i, page 258; Vol- 
ume 2, page 51.) 

Sanford^ George Bliss^ Lieutenant-Colonel United 
States Army. Founder Connecticut Society Sons of 
the Revolution. Died July 13, 1908. 

Sanford^ William Henry^ Stamford, Conn. Founder. 

LYON, JOSIAH. 1829. 

Private May 10, 1775, to December 17, 1775, Captain James 
Chapman's Company, Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons, Sixth 
Regiment of Continental troops; Private September 8, 1776, 
to November 2, 1776, Captain Keyes' Company, Major 
Backus' Regiment of Light Horse; Private August 24, 1777, 
to October 30, 1777, Captain Amos Jones' Company, Colonel 
Jonathan Latimer's Regiment. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 75, 478, 
506.) 
124 Parker, Francis Hubert, Hartford, Conn. 

LYON, ROGER. 1715-1797. 

Private, Colonel Thomas Thomas' Regiment, Westchester 
County, New York, 1779. 

(Statement of Record and Pension Office, War Depart- 
ment, Washington, D. C, on file with application.) 

112 Knapp^ Edwin A., Greenwich, Conn. Died April 17, 
1907. 

LYON, SAMUEL. 

Private Captain Caleb Lawrence's Company, Second Regiment, 
Westchester County, New York, September, 1779, Colonel 
Thomas Thomas commanding; Private Captain Richard Sack- 
ett's Company, January, 1781. 

(MS. Volume "Treasurer's Certificates" of New York 
State, Volume 9, page 29; Volume 3, page 7.) 



68 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

112 Knapp, Edwin Augustus, Greenwich, Conn. Died 
April 17, 1907. 

MACOMBER, HENRY. Taunton, Mass. 

Private Captain Zebedee Redding's Company, Colonel Josiah 
Whitney's Regiment, service from four days preceding March 
to November i, 1776, five months, 13 days.. Volume X, page 
126; Colonel Henry Sherburne's Regiment, August 2, 1777 
to December 31, 1779; Captain Hunt's Company, Colonel 
Jackson's Regiment, January i, 1780 to August 2, 1780. 

(" Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution- 
ary War," Volume X, pages 119, 458, 573.) 

203 Macomber, Frank Grant, Hartford, Conn. 

MACOMBER, REUBEN. Taunton, Mass. 1760-1845. 

Private, Captain Oliver Soper, Colonel Joseph Read's Regiment, 
Continental Army, February to August, 1776. 

(" Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution- 
ary War," Volume X, page 123.) 

203 Macomber, Frank Grant, Hartford, Conn. 

MARVIN, BENJAMIN. 1737-1822. 

Lieutenant Captain Griffiin's Company, Third New York Regi- 
ment, June 29, 1775; Captain in Fourth New York Regi- 
ment; resigned April 23, 1778. 

(New York Archives, " Nevi^ York in the Revolution," 
by Berthold Fernow, Volume i, page 213; " Marvin Geneal- 
ogy," 1 635- 1 904, page 358, par. 43.) 
181 Kinsman, Edwin Center, Rocky Hill, Conn. 

MATHER, JOSEPH, Captain. 1753-1840. 

Private First Company, Captain-Lieutenant Sylvanus Brown, 
Fifth Connecticut Continental Regiment, Colonel David 
Waterbury, May 9-December 10, 1775; Private Eleventh 
Company, Captain Jonathan Bell, Ninth Regiment Connecti- 
cut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Mead commanding; in 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 69 

service at New York August 13-September 16, 1776; Private 
same company, in service on the Westchester border October 
24-December 24, 1776; Private same company, Captain Eli 
Reed, in service on the Westchester border December 28, 
1776- January 8, 1777; served in same company three months; 
Sergeant same company, " Captain " Nathaniel Slason, eight 
months in service, 1779; promoted Ensign; in service July, 
1780; promoted Captain; six months in service, 1781. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 64, 456, 
488, 586, 619, 650; his application for the pension which he 
received ; copy of statement of Wm. Lochren, Commissioner 
of Pensions, on file.) 

23 Street, Frederick D., Darien, Conn. Died September 
26, 1911. 

MATHER, MOSES, D.D., Rev. 1719-1806. 

Taken prisoner with the congregation of the church at Middle- 
sex July 22, 1781, and confined in the Provost prison. New 
York. 

(" Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution," Benson 
J. Lossing, Volume i, page 414; "Poetical Relation," Peter 
St. John.) 

23 Street, Frederick D., Darien, Conn. Died September 
26, 191 1. 

MILES, BENJAMIN. 1724-1776. 

Private Captain Adam Wheeler's Company, Colonel Ephraim 
DooHttle's Regiment; was in camp at Charlestown and Win- 
ter Hill in 1775. 

(" Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolu- 
tionary War," Volume X, page 731. Year Book, 1897-9. 
" Connecticut Society, Sons of American Revolution," page 
731.) 
145 Lincoln, Frederick Miles, Hartford, Conn. 

MILLER, ELIJAH. 1725-1776. 

Served as Adjutant in the Regiment of Minute-Men of West- 
chester County, N. Y., commanded by Colonel Samuel Drake 



70 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

in the year 1775; his Commission was dated Oct. 27, 1775; 
Served as First Lieutenant, Captain Thomas' Company, 
Colonel Drake's Regiment of New York Militia at New 
York, July, 1776, and was ordered commissioned immediately 
by the Provincial Convention, July 26, 1776. 

("New York in the Revolution," Volume i, page 75. 
" Journal of Provincial Congress Convention and Committee 
of Safety and Council of Safety" (1842), p. 526.) 

199 Thomas L. Cornell, New Haven, Conn. 



MILLER, JONATHAN. 

Private Captain John Barnard's Company, Colonel Samuel 
Wyllys' Regiment; enlisted January 10, 1778, for the term of 
one year. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 176.) 

107 Clark, Robert Moses, New Britain, Conn. 

MORGAN, WILLIAM AVERY, Sergeant. 1754-1842. 

Private Captain Isaac Gallup's Company, Tenth Continental 
Regiment, Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons, December i, 
1775-December, 1776; was in the battle of Long Island, and 
during the engagement a musket ball passed through his hat; 
promoted Sergeant about the time New London was burned, 
he was drafted and went to that place and served about one 
month, but under what officers is not stated ; was one of the 
first to enter Fort Griswold after the massacre. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 100, 656, 
661; his application for the pension which he received; state- 
ment of Wm. Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, on file.) 

34 BuLKELEY, Morgan Gardner, Hon., Hartford, Conn. 
Second President Connecticut Society Sons of Revo- 
lution. 

57 BuLKELEY, William Henry, Hartford, Conn., Died 
November 7, 1902. 

60 Bulkeley, William Eliphalet Adams, Hartford, 
Conn. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 



71 



MORGAN, ZEDEKIAH. 1744 . Danbury, Conn. 

Conductor of teams for transporting supplies from Danbury, 
Conn., to the Connecticut Army, 1 779-1 781. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 628.) 

8 Morgan, Daniel Nash, Hon., Bridgeport, Conn. 
Founder and the first Vice-President Connecticut 
Society Sons of Revolution. 

MORRIS, JAMES, Brevet-Major. . 



Commissioned June 20, 1776, Ensign Fifth Company, Captain 
Abraham Bradley, Second Battalion, Colonel Fisher Gay, 
Brigadier-General James Wadsworth's State Brigade; com- 
missioned, January i, 1777, First Lieutenant Fifth Regiment 
"Connecticut Line," formation of 1777-1781, Colonel Philip 
Burr Bradley; taken prisoner in the Battle of Germantown 
October 4, 1777; exchanged January 3, 1781 ; promoted Cap- 
tain-Lieutenant July 29, 1780; promoted Captain August 22, 
1780; Captain Second Regiment " Connecticut Line," forma- 
tion of 1781-1783, Colonel Heman Swift; detached from 
Second Regiment to serve in Colonel Alexander Scammell's 
Light Infantry Regiment May, 1781; served with Southern 
Army; retired by consolidations January i, 1783; member 
Society of the Cincinnati. 

("Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 15, page 
426; "Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 194, 325, 
354, 375, 395.) 

Morris, Dwight, Brigadier-General. One of the 
founders and the first President of the Connecticut 
Society Sons of the Revolution, Died September 26, 
1894- 
Morris, Robert Clark, New York City. A Founder 
of the Connecticut Society. 

NELSON, DAVID, Sr. 1754-1829. 

Private, Captain John Lacey's Company, Colonel Wayne's Bat- 
talion, Fourth Pennsylvania Line. 

(" Pennsylvania Historical Society and Family History," 
1869.) 

175 Eldridge, Frank Harold, U. S. N., Washington, D. C. 



72 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

NELSON, NEHEMIAH. 1758- — — . Mendon, Mass. 

Private Captain Tyler's Company, Colonel Read's Regiment, 
December 10, 1775; Private Captain Gershom Nelson's Com- 
pany, July 19, 1776; Private Captain Fennienan's Company, 
Colonel Woods' Regiment, from April i8 to May 7, 1777; 
Private Captain Farrar's Company, Colonel Haw's Regiment, 
Sept. 27 to Oct. 29, 1777; Corporal Captain Seagrave's Com- 
pany, Colonel Woods' Regiment, June 19 to July 12, 1778; 
Private Captain Baker's Company, Colonel Haw's Regiment, 
August 2 to September 12, 1778. 

(" Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in Revolution," 
pages 320, 321, Volume 11.) 

193 Pope, George, Hartford, Conn. 

OSBORN, NATHANIEL, Sergeant. . 

Private Second Company, Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Whiting, 
Fifth Connecticut Continental Regiment, Colonel David 
Waterbury, May lO-November 17, 1775; re-entered service; 
Private Captain Robert Walker's Company, Colonel Samuel 
Elmore's Continental Regiment, April 16, 1776; Sergeant 
Captain John Yeates' Company, Colonel Roger Enos' Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, in service on the Hudson May 29- 
August 27, 1778; Sergeant Corps of Sappers and Miners, Sep- 
tember 9, 1 779-1 783. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 65, 115, 
298, 538; statement of Edgar B. Hoyt, on file.) 

13 Hoyt, Huested W. R., Colonel, Greenwich, Conn. 

Died April 8, 1894. 
12 Hoyt, Leigh Richmond, Lyons Plains, Conn. A 

Founder of the Connecticut Society. Died July 25, 

1903. 

PALMES, SAMUEL, East Haddam, Conn. 1755^-1849. 

Private, enlisted March i, 1776, Captain Joseph Jewett's Com- 
pany, Colonel Jedediah Huntington's Connecticut Regiment, 
served about two weeks, was transferred to Captain Christo- 
pher Darrow's Company, Colonel Samuel H. Parson's Regi- 
ment and served until February, 1777; August, 1779, enlisted 
as private in Captain Stephen Betts' Company, Colonel Isaac 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 73 

Sherman's Connecticut Regiment, and served until February, 
1780, and was honorably discharged at Morristown, New 
Jersey. 

(United States Bureau of Pensions, Record dated Feb- 
ruary, 1896.) 

192 Blydenburg, Ralph Arthur, Middletown, Conn. 
Died October 10, 19 13. 

PARK, BENJAMIN. Westerly, R. I. 1735-1775. 

Captain of Stonington, Connecticut Company, which marched to 
Boston, April 19, 1775, Lexington Alarm; Captain of Rhode 
Island Militia and mortally wounded at the Battle of Bunker 
Hill. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 22; 
" Society Sons of the Revolution Year Book," 1899, page 505 ; 
" Denison's Westerly," page no; 74 " Narragansett Hist. 
Register," Volume i, page 217; "Drake's Dictionary of 
American Biography," page 678.) 

200 Welcher, Lester Groome, Hartford, Conn. 
PARKER, JOHN. 1732-1806. 

Private Captain Eliphalet Holmes' Company of Minute Men 
raised in East Haddam, May, 1776; Private June, 1776, to 
December 25, 1776, Captain Eliphalet Holmes' Company, 
Fourth Battalion, Colonel Wadsworth's Brigade; was in 
battle at White Plains; Private August 3, 1778, to September, 
1778, in Captain Seth W. Holmes' Company, under Brig- 
adier-General John Tyler; Private November 8, 1780, to 
January 6, 1781, Captain Z. Hungerford's Company, Colonel 
Samuel McLellan's Regiment, at New London and Groton. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 404, 532. 
580, 611.) 

124 Parker, Francis Hubert, Hartford, Conn. 
PARKER, JOHN. 1758-1839. 

Private Captain Martin Kirtland's Company, Colonel Erastus 
Wolcott's Regiment, New London, Conn., February 28, 



74 ^ONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

1777; Private Captain Martin Kirtland's Company, Colonel 
R. J. Meigs' Regiment, May 20, 1777, to May 20, 1780. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 613, 636; 
and certificate of Commissioner of Pensions.) 

125 Parker, John Marvin, Jr., Hartford, Conn. 
PEASE, SHARON. 1746 . 

Private Captain Loomis' Company, Major Backus' Regiment of 
Light Horse, 1776, ordered to army near New York; also 
in detachment of Third Troop in Fourth Regiment of Light 
Horse, and served as an escort to Convention Troops (pris- 
oners of Burgoyne's army) passing through Connecticut No- 
vember, 1778. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 479, 546; 
Allen's " History of Enfield," page 2495.) 

145 Lincoln, Frederick Miles, Hartford, Conn. 

POND, CHARLES, Captain. 1744-1832. 

Ensign Captain Perrit's Company, Colonel Webb's Regiment, at 
siege of Boston; Lieutenant, 1776; June, 1776, in command of 
armed sloop Schuyler; re-captured prizes taken by the Eng- 
lish; Captain Sixth Regiment "Connecticut Line," formation 
of 1 777- 1 78 1, Colonel William Douglass, January i, 1777; 
resigned April 20, 1779; Captain brig-of-war New Defense, 
1 779 J taken prisoner and confined on prison ship Jersey. 

(" Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 15, page 
94; " Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolu- 
tion," pages 83, 104, 206, 376; "American Archives," fourth 
series, Volume 6, pages 974, 991 ; " Thirty-six Voyages," 
George Coggeshall, New York, 1858, pages 26, 27, list of 
prisoners on ship Jersey.) 

24 Baldwin Wilson Leslie, Stamford, Conn. 

I Pond, Nathan Gillette. Founder. Died July 29, 
1894. 

POPE, FREDERICK. 1733-1812. Stoughton, Mass. 

Private Captain Peter Talbot's Company, Stoughton, Massachu- 
setts Militia, Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775; Colonel Paul 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 75 

D. Sargent's Massachusetts Continental Regiment, June 23 to 
December, 1775; Major in Colonel John Robinson's Bat- 
talion, Massachusetts Militia, raised for defense of Boston 
Harbor, May 8, 1777, promoted March 2, 1778 to Lieutenant- 
Colonel, January i, 1779; served at Rhode Island. 

("Hist. Norfolk Co. Mass. Massachusetts Military 
Documents," Volume 28; "Book of Military Officers," page 
64; " Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in Revolution," Vol- 
ume 12, page 567, Volume 28, page 64. 

193 Pope, George, Hartford, Conn. 

102 Pope, Albert Linder, Hartford, Conn. 

PROVOST, SAMUEL. 1740-1835 

Private Captain Bell's Company, Ninth Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, under General Wooster, 1 776-1 777; pensioner under 
the Act of 1832. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 490, 651.) 
69 Provost, Howard G., D.D.S., West Winsted, Conn. 

PUTNAM, DANIEL. 1759-1831. 

Aide-de-Camp with rank of Major to his father, Major-General 
Putnam, 1 776-1 780; First Lieutenant Colonel Durkee's Regi- 
ment, Tvi^entieth Continentals, 1776. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 97, 106, 
142, 376, 636.) 

134 BiGELow, Henry Waite, Allston, Mass. 

PUTNAM, ISRAEL, Major-General. 1718-1790. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Lexington Alarm, April, 1775; appointed by 
the Legislature at the special April session, 1775, Second Brig- 
adier-General of the Regiments then ordered for the safety 
and defense of the Colony; also at same time, appointed Col- 
onel of the Third Regiment, commission dated May i, 1775; 
Major-General Continental Army, 1776; Major-General 
Continental Army, 1777-1781; incapacitated December, 1779; 
borne on the rolls with full pay to close of the war, June, 
1783; retired under Acts of Congress as half-pay officer for 
life. 



76 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 20, 36, 
37, 53, 58, 95, 97, 129, 131, 141, 312, 436; "Life of Israel 
Putnam," by J. N. Tarbox; "Life of Israel Putnam," by 
Mack, Andrus and Woodruff, Ithaca, 1839.) 

132 Brinley, Daniel Putnam, Riverside, Conn, 
134 BiGELOW, Henry Waite, Allston, Mass. 

REDFIELD, CONSTANT. Killingworth, Conn. 1753- 
1839- 
Private, Captain Bezaleel Bristol's Company, Second Regiment, 
Connecticut; Private Captain Samuel Gale's Company, Col- 
onel Sage, February, 1776; Private, Captain Martin Lord's 
Company, Colonel Graves, August, 1776; Private, Captain 
Timothy Munger's Company, Colonel Brown, 1778; Private, 
Captain Dan Collins' Company, Colonel Richards, 1779. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 551-654. 
Bureau of Pensioners.) 

149 Bradley, Seymour Percy, New Haven, Conn. 

178 Cook, Franklin Marshall, Branford, Conn. 

ROGERS, ICHABOD. 1754-1821. 

Private, enlisted June 18, 1776, Captain Smith's Company, Col- 
onel Bradley's Battalion; discharged December 28, 1776. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in the 
the Revolution, pages 420, 621.) 

120 Rogers, Nathaniel Burton, Danbury, Conn. 
ROWELL, SAMUEL. 1754-1830. 

Private, enlisted 1774 from Londonderry, New Hampshire, Cap- 
tain Henry Drummond, Colonel John Stark's Regiment; 
engaged in Battle of Bunker Hill; August, 1775, with Eighth 
Company, Colonel John Stark's Regiment, under Colonel 
Benedict Arnold, went to Quebec; enlisted November 29, 
1775, Captain Titcomb's Company, Colonel Poor's Regi- 
ment; July II, 1776, Captain John Nesmuth's Company, Col- 
onel Wingate's Regiment, at Brooklyn Heights; July 20th, 
Captain Daniel Reynold's Company, Colonel Moses Nichols' 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. yy 

Regiment, Stark's Brigade, at Battle of Bennington; dis- 
charged September 28, 1777; enlisted April 28, 1778, Colonel 
Moses Keiley's Regiment, Sullivan's Brigade, at Fishkill-on- 
the-Hudson; enlisted April, 1780, Captain Nathaniel Hutch- 
ins' Company, Colonel Joseph Cilley's First New Hampshire 
Regiment, and marched to West Point; discharged March, 
1781. 

(New Hampshire Records; Records Pension Bureau, 
Washington, D. C.) 

135 RowELL, Charles Emery, Stamford, Conn. 

137 Rowell, Edward Everett, Jr., Stamford, Conn. 

SANFORD, ELIHU, Sergeant. 1759-1839. 

Corporal Captain David Smith's Company, Eighth Regiment 
"Connecticut Line," formation of 1777-1781, Colonel John 
Chandler, February 16, 1777; promoted Sergeant May 27, 
1778; Sergeant Captain David Dorrance's Company, Fifth 
Regiment "Connecticut Line," formation of 1781-1783, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Sherman, January i -December 31, 
1781. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 231, 348, 
637.) 

Sanford, William Henry, Stamford, Conn. Founder 
of Connecticut Society. 

Sanford, George Bliss, Lieutenant-Colonel United 
States Army. Litchfield, Conn. A Founder of the 
Connecticut Society Sons of the Revolution. Died 
July 13, 1908. 

SCHUYLER, PHILIP, Major-General. 1 733-1 804. 

Major-General Continental Army, June 19, 1775; resigned April 
19. 1779; member Continental Congress, 1775-1781; member 
New York Provincial Convention, April 20, 1775; member 
New York Senate, 1780- 1784; member Society of the Cin- 
cinnati. 

(" Heitman's Register of Officers in the Continental 
Army," page 358; "Archives of the State of New York," 
Volume I, pages 8, 15, etc.) 



78 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Hamilton, Alexander, Reverend. Founder. Dover 
Plains, N. Y. 

SEWARD, WILLIAM, Reverend. 1747-1822. 

Chaplain in Colonel David Waterbury's Regiment in 1775 at 
Stillwater, N. Y. (His name is found in a list of Sick Bills 
of 1775, being itemized accounts of the expenses of individual 
soldiers.) 

("Connecticut Historical Society Collections," Volume 
VIII, page 19; "Biographical Sketches of Yale Gradu- 
ates," by Dexter, Volume HI.) 

150 Seward, William, Jr., Racine, Wis. 

SEXTON, GEORGE. 1756-1815. Manchester, Vt. 

Was appointed or enlisted and served as Ensign, March 25, 1777, 
to September 21, 1778, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment of 
Vermont; Lieutenant September 28, 1778, to August i, 1780, 
Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment of Vermont; Captain 
August 20, 1 78 1, to November 25, 1781, Colonel Ebenezer 
Walbridge's Regiment of Vermont; Captain April i, 1782, 
to October 22, 1782, Major Gideon Bronson's Regiment of 
Vermont, and engaged in the Battles of Bennington and Sara- 
toga. 

(Affidavits of Commissioner of Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. ; Chief of Bureau of Rolls and 
Library, Department of State, Washington, D. C. ; Chief of 
Record and Pension Office of Washington, D. C. ; Adjutant- 
General of the State of Vermont.) 

133 Whittelsey, Charles Barney, Hartford, Conn. 
SHERMAN, ROGER. 1721-1793. 

Assistant, May, 1774-May, 1780; member Continental Con- 
gress, 1 774- 1 780; member of Committee appointed to prepare 
the Declaration of Independence and signer of the same; 
member Connecticut Council of Safety, May, 1774-May, 
1780; delegate to the Springfield Convention, July, 1777; 
delegate to the New Haven Convention, January, 1778; dele- 
gate to the Philadelphia Convention, January, 1780. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. yg 

("American Archives," Volume i, pages 554, 895; 
" Journals of Congress," Volume 2, pages 206, 207, 245 ; 
" Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 14, pages 254, 
324; Volume 15, pages 4, 136, 272; " State Records of Con- 
necticut," Volume I, pages 10, 221, 253, 355, 417, 477, 600, 
601, 609, 610, 612; Volume 2, pages 3, 18, 134, 251, 287, 
462, 579-) 

46 Baldwin^ Henry, New Haven, Conn. Died January 
2, 1905. 



SHERWOOD, DANIEL, 20. 1735-1819. 

Private Eighth Company, Captain Jonathan Dimon, Fourth 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Gold Selleck Silli- 
man, May, 1776; in service in Fairfield Coast Guard Novem- 
ber, 7, 1776; Clerk Fairfield Coast Guard, Captain George 
Burr, in service at Fairfield August 7, 1777, and at Peekskill 
under Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Dimon, October 5-14, 
1777. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 521, 616; 
MS. Records Fairfield Coast Guard in Pequot Library, South- 
port; MS. muster roll and order in possession of Cyrus Brad- 
ley, Southport.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood, Southport, Conn. A 
Founder of the Connecticut Society. 

43 Rowland, Herbert Samuel, Waterbury, Conn. 

6 Sherwood, Simon Couch, Southport, Conn. Died 
March, 1906. 



SIBLEY, GIDEON. Sutton, Mass. 1750-1809. 

Marched to Boston at the Lexington Alarm, 1775, and served 
as private in latter short terms. 

(" Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution " 
and letter of Secretary Commonwealth Massachusetts, No- 
vember 6, 1903.) 

161 TouRTELLOTTE, James Erskine, Middletown, Conn. 



8o SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

SMITH, ELIPHALET. 1761-1836. 

Private Captain Beardsley's Company Fairfield Coast Guard, 
September-December, 1779; Private Sixth Company, Captain 
Ebenezer Morehouse, Fourth Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
Major Elijah Abel, in service September, 1780-January, 1781 ; 
Private Captain Daniel Sturges' Company Fairfield Coast 
Guard April- August, 1782. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 651; his 
application for the pension which he received; statement of 
Wm. Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, on file.) 

44 HoYT, Thomas Russell, Danbury, Conn. Died June 
27, 1896. 

SMITH, PHINEAS, Captain. 1717-1789. 

Captain Colonel Porter's Regiment Massachusetts Troops Lex- 
ington Alarm, April, 1775; Captain Fourth Hampshire 
County Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 1776; Captain 
Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge's Regiment Bennington Alarm, 
August 17-21, 1777. 

(" Records State of Massachusetts," Volume 13, page 
101 ; Volume 42, page 83 ; Volume 23, page 75 ; Volume 176, 
page 460 1-2; statement of Wm. M. Olin, Secretary of the 
State of Massachusetts, on file.) 

70 Hadsell, G. Arthur, U. S. A., San Francisco, Cal. 

STOV\^E, SAMUEL, Midshipman. 1758-1830. 

Midshipman on Continental Frigate Trumbull, Dudley Salton- 
stall Commander, December 15, 1776-December 15, 1777; 
Midshipman on State Man-of-War Oliver Cromwell, Cap- 
tain William Coit, January 20-March 16, 1778. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 598, 596.) 

French, William Freeman, M.D., Noroton, Conn. 
A Founder of the Connecticut Society. Died Janu- 
ary 27, 1898. 

STREMBECK, JACOB. 1755-1841. 

Drummer and Private, Colonel Thomas Proctor's Fourth Artil- 
lery, Pennsylvania Line ; Ensign Captain John G. Eyers Com- 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 8l 

pany, Third Regiment Foot, Major Richard Salter; com- 
missioned February 4, 1781; 1775 enlisted First Company 
Artillery, Captain Thomas Proctor. 

("Second Series Pennsylvania Archives," page 180; 
" Pension Roll," Volume 2, page 178-514; " History of Jacob 
Strembeck " at Pension Office, Washington, D. C. 

Allen, Louis Joseph, U. S. N., Founder. Died 
September, 1905. 

TALCOTT, ABRAHAM. Glastonbury, Conn. 1757- 
1839. 

Private in Captain Jonathan Hale's Company of Colonel Wol- 
cott's State Continental Regiment before Boston from Decem- 
ber, 1775, to February, 1776. This Regiment formed a part 
of the detachment from the army that occupied Boston after 
the enemy evacuated the town. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 385, 652.) 
179 Fenn, Edward Hart, Wethersfield, Conn. 

THORP, ELIPHALET, Captain. 1740-1795. 

Member Fairfield Committee of Inspection, elected December 
28, 1775; Captain Fourth Company, Fourth Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, Colonel Samuel Whiting, May, 1776 
. . , ; in service at Peekskill, October 5-31, 1777; Cap- 
tain in the First Battalion Connecticut State Troops, Colonel 
Samuel Whiting, November, 1776-March, 1777. 

(" Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 15, page 
341; "State Records of Connecticut," Volume i, page 67; 
" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 424, 515; MS. 
Town Records of Fairfield.) 

43 Rowland, Herbert Samuel, Waterbury, Conn. 
TREMAN, ABNER. 1761-1823. 

Private Second Regiment New York, Colonel Philip Van Cort- 
landt commanding; he was discharged on June 8, 1783, and 
was accredited with five years and two months' actual service ; 
he, also, at the time of his discharge, was honored with a 
badge of merit for three years' faithful service; he was one 
6 



82 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

of twenty men selected personally by General George Wash- 
ington to clear away the abatis that obstructed the advance 
on Stony Point, which was captured by the American troops 
on the night of July 15, 1779; he was with Sullivan's army 
in the Battle of Chemung, August 29, 1779; received bounty 
of 600 acres of land in the present town of Trumansburg, 
N. Y. 

(See Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions; 
copy of certificate on file with application.) 

96 Wyckoff, Frank Treman. Died February 19, 1903. 

TUBES, DANIEL. 1736 . 

Private Captain Jonathan Hale's Company, Colonel Erastus 
Wolcott's Regiment, December, 1775-February, 1776. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 385.) 
86 Tubes, William Henry, Hartford, Conn. Died . 



TURNER, ISAAC. 1754-1829. New London, Conn. 

Commissioned Lieutenant January i, 1777, Captain Robert 
Lewis' Company, Second Regiment, Connecticut Line, Colonel 
Charles Webb; resigned May 15, 1778. 

(" Records State of Connecticut," 1776- 1778, Volume i, 
page 191 ; " Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 157- 
158; Heitman's Register, p. 406; "Year Book Connecticut 
S. A. R.," 1900-1903, page 537.) 

172 Walter St. George Harris, Hartford, Conn. 

TURNER, MATTHEW. 1733-1824. Montville, Conn. 

Served in Captain George Markham's Company, September, 1781, 
after Arnold's Attack on New London. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 58; " Year 
Book Connecticut S. A. R.," 1900-1903, page 537; " Baker's 
History of Montville," page 97.) 

172 Walter St. George Harris, Hartford, Conn. 

TURPENING, JACOBUS. Ulster Co., N. Y. 1756- 
1836. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 83 

Served seven years in Revolutionary War from Ulster County, 
N. Y. 

(N. Y. State Records.) 

174 HowGATE, Charles Wilton, D.D.S., Greenwich, 
Conn. 

USHER, ROBERT, M.D. Chatham, Conn. 1742-1820. 

Surgeon Colonel James Wadsworth's Regiment; served at Bos- 
ton January to March, 1776. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 386.) 
164 Tyler, Rollin Usher, Tylerville, Conn. 

WADSWORTH, REUBEN. Hartford, Conn. 1753- 
1836. 

Private; enlisted May 5, 1775, discharged December 17, I775; 
Second Company, Captain Samuel Wyllis, Second Regiment, 
General Joseph Spencer; Sergeant August 26, marched, dis- 
charged November 3, 1777, Captain Jonathan Wadsworth's 
Company, Colonel Thaddeus Cook's Regiment; Pensioner 
1832, Hartford County. 

("Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 46, 511, 
652.) 

176 Edward M. Francis, Hartford, Conn. 
WAITE, RICHARD. 1711-1790. 

Major Third Regiment of Militia under the general organiza- 
tion of 1 775-1 783, being promoted from Captain Februarj', 
1781. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," page 433.) 

134 Bigelow, Henry Waite, Allston, Mass. 

WAKEMAN, JOHN, 20. 1731-1809. 

Private Eighth Company, Captain Jonathan Dimon, Fourth Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia; Colonel Gold Selleck Silliman. 
May, 1776; in service in Fairfield Coast Guard October 28, 
1776; Private Fairfield Coast Guard, Captain George Burr; 
in service at Peekskill under Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan 
Dimon October 5-30, i777- 



84 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 521, 616; 
MS. muster roll in possession of Cyrus Sherwood Bradley, 
Southport; MS. records Fairfield Coast Guard in Pequot 
Library, Southport.) 

Bradley^ Cyrus Sherwood, Southport, Conn. A 
Founder of the Connecticut Society. 

9 Wakeman, Howard Nichols, Southport, Conn. 

WATERBURY, DAVID, Brigadier-General. 1722-1801. 

Colonel Fifth Connecticut Continental Regiment, 1775; Colonel 
Connecticut State Regiment at New York, February-April, 
1776; Brigadier-General, 1776; taken prisoner in the action 
at Valcour's Island, Lake Champlain, October 11, 1776; ex- 
changed, 1780; Brigadier-General Connecticut State Brigade, 
1781. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution," pages 64, 304, 
387, 389, 564; " History of Stamford," pages 417-423.) 

68 Waterbury^ Harry Guley, Stamford, Conn. 

WEED, ANANIAS. 1752-1820. Stamford, Conn. 

Private, 1775, Seventh Company, Colonel David Waterbury's 
Regiment; Second Sergeant, Seventh Company, February 25, 
1776, and was the first man to enter Montreal; 1776, Ser- 
geant Colonel Chas. Webb's Regiment; 1779, Clerk in Com- 
missary Department, and served until 1783. 

(" Connecticut Men in the Revolution.") 

Founder Riker, Edward Wood, White Plains, N. Y. A Founder 
of the Connecticut Society, Sons of the Revolution. 

WHEELOCK, SILAS. 1717. . Worcester Co., 

Mass. 

Colonel of the Seventh Worcester County Regiment, which 
marched to Cambridge and Roxbury on the Lexington 
Alarm, April 19, 1775. 

(" Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in Revolution," 
Volume 16, page loii.) 

193 Pope, George, Hartford, Conn. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 85 

WHITTEMORE, SAMUEL. Cambridge, Mass. 1696- 

1793- 
Private Charlestown Massachusetts Minute-Men; wounded at 
the Battle of Lexington. (He was then nearly 80 years of 
age). On the retreat of the British troops he was posted at 
Menotomy (part of Cambridge) and personally killed two 
British soldiers and was then shot twice and bayoneted six 
or eight times and left for dead ; he recovered and lived to be 
98 years of age. 

("Massachusetts Archives and Certificate.") 

165 Whittemore^ James Madison^ Hartford, Conn. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN, Col. Dr. 1752-1806. Salem, 

N. Y. 

Three times elected to Provincial Congress; Commissioned Col- 
onel ; member of convention when New York State adopted 
the Constitution of the United States; Senator and Congress- 
man, 1777 to 1795; Congressman, Salem, 1 792-1 796; served 
in the Revolutionary War and " drew pay due him and his 
regiment which turned out on an alarm against the common 
enemy for April 22 to 25, 1778." 

(Original Records U. S. War Department, Adjutant- 
General's Office ; Certificate Comptroller, State of New York ; 
History of Salem.) 
188 MowRY, Allan McLane, Greenwich, N. Y. 

WOODHULL, NATHANIEL, Brigadier-General. 1722- 
1776. 

Colonel Long Island Militia, 1775; Brigadier-General same, 
1776; member New York Provincial Convention April 20, 
1775; member New York Provincial Congress, I775-I776; 
President of same, 1776; taken prisoner and wounded after 
capture at Jamaica, Long Island, August 28, 1776; and died 
from wounds September 20, 1776. 

(Civil List, State of New York, Series 1889-91, pages 
113, 452-3; "Calendar of Revolutionary Papers," Albany, 
N. Y., Volume i, page 134; Heitman's " Register of Officers 
in Continental Army," page 443 ; " Archives of the State of 
New York," Volume i, pages 4, 80, 126.) 



86 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Hamilton, Alexander, Reverend, Dover, Plains, N. Y. 
Founder. 

Wayne, Henry N., Reverend, Armonlc, N. Y. Founder. 

YOUNG, HYATT, of Chatham, Mass. 1775-1782. 

Sergeant Captain Thomas Hamilton's Company, raised for sea- 
coast defense, from July 7, 1775 to December 31, 1775; 
Sergeant Colonel Shepard's Massachusetts Line Regiment 
from January i, 1777 to February, 1782. 

(" Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the 
Revolution.") 

167 Anderson, Justus Doane, Hartford, Conn. 

YOUNG, JOSEPH, of Chatham, Mass. 1762 . 

Private June 19, 1778 to January i, 1779, and six months in 
1780. 

(" Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the 
Revolution.") 
167 Anderson, Justus Doane, Hartford, Conn. 



History of the Origin 



SOCIETY 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



State of Connecticut 



ORIGIN OF THE SOCIETY. 



89 



At a meeting of the New York Society, Sons of the 
Revolution, the Executive Committee was requested to com- 
municate with those members Hving in other states urging 
them to form a State Society in their respective states. 
For the purpose of organizing such a Society in the State of 
Connecticut, the Rev. Alexander Hamilton, of Lyons Plains, 
Conn., on the i6th day of May, 1893, sent out a notice of 
a meeting to be held on the 24th day of May at one-thirty 
P. M., at the Atlantic Hotel, Bridgeport, Conn. 

The Connecticut members of the New York. Society and 
their friends were invited, and the following gentlemen were 
present at the meeting. 



Rev. Henry N. Wayne, 
Rev. Nathaniel E. Cornwall, 
Rev. Henry M. Sherman, 
Rev. Alexander Hamilton, 
Rev. Frank E. Robbins, 
Mr. Thomas B. Fairchild, 
Mr. Nathan G. Pond, 
Mr. Cyrus S. Bradley, 
Col. Dwight Morris, 
Mr. John S. Jones, 
Mr. Edwin S, Robbins, 
Dr. George O. Robbins, 
Mr. Frank C. Dowd, 
Dr. Wm. F. French, 
Mr. Leigh R. Hoyt, 
Col. Henry W. Wessels, 
Mr. John W. Gulick, 



Westport, Conn. 
Stratford, Conn. 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
Lyons Plains, Conn. 
Norwalk, Conn. 
Stratford, Conn. 
Milford, Conn. 
Southport, Conn. 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
Westport, Conn. 
Waterbury, Conn. 
Waterbury, Conn. 
Madison, Conn. 
Noroton, Conn. 
Lyons Plains, Conn. 
Litchfield, Conn. 
Lyons Plains, Conn. 



Colonel Dwight Morris was elected Chairman of the 
meeting, and Cyrus S. Bradley its Secretary. 

The Constitution of the New York Society, Sons of the 
Revolution, was adopted as the Constitution of the Connect- 



90 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



icut Society, Sons of the Revolution, but certain amend- 
ments were made thereto to suit local conditions. 
The following officers were unanimously elected: 

Col. Dwight Morris, President pro tern. 
Col. Henry W. Wessels, Treasurer pro tern. 
Mr. Cyrus Bradley, Secretary pro tern. 

The Meeting appointed a Committee on Credentials, 
which was composed of the following: 

Rev. Alexander Hamilton, Chairman. 
Mr. John S. Jones. 
Rev. Henry N. Wayne. 

The second meeting of the Society was held in Westport, 
Conn., on the 5th day of September, 1893, and the following 
eligible gentlemen were recommended as members. 

Nathan Gillette Pond, Milford, Conn. 

Howard Eugene Gates, M.D., Colorado Springs, Col. 

John Smith Jones, Westport, Conn. 

Chauncey Smith Foster, West Winsted, Conn. 

Alexander Hamilton, Major- 
General, U. S. A., retired, Lyons Plains, Conn. 

Simon Couch Sherwood, Southport, Conn. 

Rev. Nathaniel Ellsworth 

Cornwall, Stratford, Conn. 

Hon. Daniel Nash Morgan, 

Treasurer, U. S., Washington, D. C. 

Howard Nickols Wakeman, Southport, Conn. 

Oliver Taylor Sherwood, Southport, Conn. 

Timothy Jones, Danbury, Conn. 

Leigh Richmond Hoyt, Lyons Plains, Conn. 

At this meeting the following officers were nominated: 

President. 
Col. Dwight Morris, Bridgeport, Conn. 

Vice-President. 
Hon. Daniel Nash Morgan, Washington, D. C. 



ORIGIN OF THE SOCIETY. 91 

Secretary. 

Mr. Cyrus Sherwood Brad- 
ley, Southport, Conn. 

Treasurer. 
Col. Henry Walton Wessels, Litchfield, Conn. 

Registrar. 
Mr. Nathan Gillette Pond, Milford, Conn. 

Chaplain. 
Rev. Alexander Hamilton, Lyons Plains, Conn. 

Board of Managers. 

Mr. Satterlee Swartwout, Stamford, Conn. 

Dr. William Freeman French, Noroton, Conn. 

Col. George Bliss Sanford, Litchfield, Conn. 

Rev. Henry N. Wayne, Westport, Conn. 
Mr. Louis J. Allen, Chief 

Engineer, U. S. N. 

Mr. Jesup Wakeman, New York, N. Y. 

Mr. Simon Couch Sherwood, Southport, Conn. 
Mr. Augustus Floyd Dela- 

field, Noroton, Conn. 

Mr. John Smith Jones, Westport, Conn. 

Delegates to General Society. 
Col. Dwight Morris, 
Rev. Alexander Hamilton, 
Nathan Gillette Pond, 
Satterlee Swartwout, 
Jesup Wakeman. 

Alternates. 
Augustus Floyd Delafield, 
Edward Wood Riker, 
Robert Clark Morris, D.C.L., 
Rev. Henry N. Wayne, 
Rev. Nathaniel Ellsworth Cornwall. 



92 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



The third meeting of the Society was held in the Old 
Court House, Bridgeport, Conn., on the 7th day of Sep- 
tember, 1893. 

The Secretary pro tern read a letter of congratulation 
from James M. Montgomery, the Secretary of the General 
Society, Sons of the Revolution, in which the Connecticut 
Society was invited to join the General Society. In this 
letter Mr. Montgomery suggested that the Connecticut 
Society be incorporated at once. 

The officers nominated at the meeting of the 5th instant 
were unanimously elected, and President Dwight Morris 
was escorted to the Chair amid tumultuous applause. 

The Committee on Credentials, through its Chairman, 
the Rev, Alexander Hamilton, approved the admission as 
members of those gentlemen who had been recommended at 
the meeting of September 5th, and they were admitted. 

An application for admission to the General Society was 
prepared and adopted as follows: 

To the General Society, Sons of the Revolution: 

The undersigned incorporators of the Connecticut 
Society, Sons of the Revolution, respectfully ask for ad- 
mission for said Society to the General Society, Sons of 
the Revolution. 

BE IT KNOWN, That on the seventh day of Septem- 
ber, 1893, Dwight Morris, Cyrus Sherwood Bradley, Henry 
Walton Wessels, Alexander Hamilton, Jr., Henry N. 
Wayne, A. Floyd Delafield, Thomas B. Fairfield, William 
Freeman French, and Jesup Wakeman did associate them- 
selves as a body corporate, pursuant to the Statute Laws of 
the State of Connecticut regulating the formation and 
organization of corporations without capital stock, and the 
following are their Articles of Association : 

Article I. The name of said Corporation shall be 
" Sons of the Revolution." 

Article II. The purposes for which said Corporation 
Is formed are the following, to wit: 

To perpetuate the memory of the men who, in the 
military, naval, and civil service of the Colonies and the 



ORIGIN OF THE SOCIETY 93 

Continental Congress, by their acts or counsel, achieved 
American Independence; to promote and assist in the proper 
celebration of the anniversaries of the birthday of Wash- 
ington, and of prominent events in the War of the Revolu- 
tion; to inspire among the members and their descendants 
the patriotic spirit of their forefathers; to inculcate in the 
community in general sentiments of nationality and respect 
for the principles for which the Patriots of the Revolution 
contended, and to promote social intercourse and the feeling 
of fellowship among its members. 

Article III. The Statute Laws of the State of Con- 
necticut relating to corporations without capital stock are 
hereby referred to and made a part of these articles, and 
the Corporation hereby organized and established under, 
and pursuant to, said Statute Laws shall have all the powers 
and proceed according to the regulations described and 
specified therein. 

Article IV. The said Corporation is located in the town 
of New Haven, County of New Haven, and State of Con- 
necticut. 

Dated at Bridgeport this seventh day of September, 
1893. 

We, the undersigned. President and Secretary of the 
" Sons of the Revolution " hereby certify that the foregoing 
is a true copy of the articles of said Corporation. 

Attest: (Signed) Dwight Morris, President. 

" Cyrus Sherwood Bradley, Secretary. 




BKICADIKR (iENKKAL DWlCillT MOKKIS. Bridgki-ort, Conn. 

Died Sei)teiiil)iT26. 1S94 

A Founder and tlu- lirst Fresideiit 

<i( 

Thk Sinii-TS UK Till-; Sons of thk Kkvui.ution 

ill the 

State vi ConneL-lii'ut 



FOUNDERS 



SOCIETY 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



State of Connecticut 
1893 



FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIETY. 



97 



FOUNDERS 



Society of the Sons of the Revolution in 
the State of Connecticut. 



Instituted May 24, 1893. 
Incorporated September 7, 1893. 



Chief Engineer Louis Joseph Allen, U.S.N., 

Cyrus Sherwood Bradley, 

Reverend Nathaniel E. Cornwall, 

Augustus Floyd Delafield, . 

Frank Curtis Dowd, 

Thomas Benjamin Fairchild, 

Chauncey S. Foster, 

William Freeman French, M.D., 

Howard E. Gates, M.D., 

Reverend Alexander Hamilton, . 

Leigh R. Hoyt, .... 

John Smith Jones, .... 

Brigadier-General DwiGHT Morris, 

Robert Clark Morris, D.C.L., 

Daniel Nash Morgan, . 

Nathan G. Pond, .... 

Edward Wood Riker, 

Lieut.-Colonel George Bliss Sanford, U.S.A 

William Henry Sanford, 

Satterlee Swartwout, . 

Jesup Wakeman, .... 

Howard Nickols Wakeman, . 

Reverend Henry Nicoll Wayne, . 

Colonel Henry Walton Wessells, 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Southport, Conn. 
Stratford, Conn. 
Noroton, Conn. 
Madison, Conn. 
Stratford, Conn. 
Winsted, Conn. 
Noroton, Conn. 

Lyons Plains, Conn. 
Lyons Plains, Conn. 
Westport, Conn. 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
New York. 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
Milford, Conn. 
Stamford, Conn. 
Litchfield, Conn. 
Litchfield, Conn. 
Stamford, Conn. 
Southport, Conn. 
Southport, Conn. 
Armonk, N. Y. 
Litchfield, Conn. 



OFFICERS 



SOCIETY 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



State of Connecticut 



SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION 



OFFICERS SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION. loi 



Officers Since Its Organization 



Presidents. 

Elected. Retired 

1893 Brigadier-General Dwight Morris, Founder, 1894 

1894 Honorable Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, .... 

Vice-Presidents. 
1893 Honorable Daniel Nash Morgan, Founder, .... 

Secretaries. 

1893 Cyrus Sherwood Bradley, Founder, 1895 

1895 Rev. Henry Nicoll Wayne, Founder, 1901 

1 90 1 Walter Leslie Wakefield, 1906 
1906 Edward Hart Fenn, .... 

Assistant Secretaries. 

1895 Abram Baldwin Sturges, M.D., 1897 

1897 George James Holmes, M.D., 1902 

1902 Charles Barney Whittelsej', 1904 
1904 Henry Waite BIgelow, 1905 

Treasurers. 

1893 Colonel Henry Walton Wessells, Founder, 1909 

1909 Walter Collyer Faxon, .... 

Registrars. 

1893 Nathan Gillette Pond, Founder, ^1894 

1894 Jesup Wakeman, Founder, ^895 

1895 William Freeman French, M.D., Founder, 1897 
1897 William Ferris Waterbury, 1899 
1899 William Taylor Andrews, 1902 
1902 Hanford Lorenzo Curtis, 1906 
1906 Walter Leslie Wakefield, 1908 
1908 Hon. Francis Hubert Parker, .... 



I02 



Elected. 




1893 


Rev. 


1894 


Rev 


1897 


Rev. 


1898 


Rev. 



sons of the revolution. 
Chaplains. 

Retired. 

Alexander Hamilton, Founder, 1894 

Nathaniel Ellsworth Cornwall, 1897 

George Israel Brown, 1898 

Frederick R. Sanford, .... 



Historian. 
1902 Charles Barney Whittelsey, 



MANAGERS. 



103 



MANAGERS 



Officers Since Its Organization. 



Managers — 18Q3-4. 
Satterlee Swartwout, 
William F. French, M. D., 
Col. George B. Sanford, 
Rev. Henry N. Wayne, 
Louis J. Allen, U. S. Navy, 
Jesup Wakeman, 
Simon C. Sherwood, 
Augustus F. Delafield, 
John S. Jones. 



Managers — 18Q4-5. 
Satterlee Swartwout, 
William F. French, M. D., 
Col. George B. Sanford, 
Augustus F. Delafield, 
Simon C. Sherwood, 
Robert C. Morris, 
John E. Heaton, 
Hon. a. p. Bradstreet, 
Oliver T. Sherwood. 



Managers — i8gs-6. 
Cyrus S. Bradley, 
Reverend A. Hamilton, 
Col. G. B. Sanford, 
Hon. a. p. Bradstreet, 
Robert C. Morris, 
David H. Gould, 
Oliver T. Sherwood, 
William F. Waterbury, 
Leigh R. Hoyt. 



Managers — 1896-7. 
Robert C. Morris, 
David H. Gould, 
Leigh R. Hoyt, 
Timothy Jones, 
Oliver T. Sherwood, 
William F. Waterbury, 
Augustus F. Delafield, 
Frederick J. Huntington, 
Frank C. Dowd. 



Managers — 1897-8. 
Augustus F. Delafield, 
Timothy Jones, 
Robert P. Wakeman, 
George J. Holmes, M.D., 
Rev. E. Livingston Wells, 
Thomas D. Bradstreet, 
Chauncey S. Foster, 
James B. Bowen, 
Loren T. Day, M.D. 



Managers — 1898-9. 
A. Floyd Delafield, 
Robert P. Wakeman, 
Chauncey S. Foster, 
James W. Cheney, 
Thomas D. Bradstreet, 
Howard N. Wakeman, 
Charles E. Hart, 
Henry Hooker. 



Managers — 1899-1900. 
A. FLO-iT) Delafield, 
James W. Cheney, 
Howard N. Wakeman, 
Charles E. Hart, 
Howard G. Provost, 
Charles H. Leeds, 
Ransom N. Fitzgerald, 
Charles W. Hodge, 
Charles B. Mason. 



Managers — 1900-1901. 
A. Floyd Delafield, 
James W. Cheney, 
Ransom N. Fitzgerald, 
David H. Gould, 
Howard G. Provost, D.D, 
Isaac W. Birdseye, 
John S. Jones, 
Frederick D. Street, 
Charles B. Mason. 



Managers — 1901-1902. 
A. Floyd Delafield, 
Isaac W. Birdseye, 
Ransom N. Fitzgerald, 
John S. Jones, 
S., David H. Gould, 
Frederick D. Street, 
Henry N. Wayne, 
Hanford L. Curtis, 
N. Burton Rogers. 



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SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



Managers — iQ02-/gos. 
A. Floyd Delafield, 
Isaac W. Birdseye, 
Ransom N. Fitzgerald, 
John S. Jones, 
David H. Gould, 
Frederick D. Street, 
Wm. F. Waterbury, 
Hanford L. Curtis, 
N. Burton Rogers. 



Managers — iqoj-iqo^. 
A. Floyd Delafield, 
Isaac W. Birdseye, 
Ransom N. Fitzgerald, 
John S. Jones, 
David H. Gould, 
Frederick D. Street, 
William F. Waterbury, 
N. Burton Rogers, 
Francis H. Parker. 



Managers — igo^-igos. 
Francis H. Parker, 
John S. Jones, 
Albert L. Pope, 
Maj. James W. Cheney, 
Walter C. Faxon, 
Edward H. Fenn, 
Wm. Seward, Jr., 
Com. Frank H. Eldridge, 

U. S. N., 
Ransom N. Fitzgerald. 



Managers — iQO^-igod. 
Francis H. Parker, 
John S. Jones, 
Albert L. Pope, 
Maj. James W. Cheney, 
Walter C. Faxon, 
William Seward, Jr., 
Ransom Fitzgerald, 
Edward H. Fenn, 
Com. F. H. Eldridge, U. S. N. 



Managers — igo6-igoy. 
Francis H. Parker, 
Maj. James W. Cheney, 
John S. Jones, 
Morgan B. Brainard, 
Albert L. Pope, 
Walter C. Faxon, 
William Seward, Jr., 
Edward B. Pratt, 
Normand F. Allen. 



Managers — igoy-1908. 
Francis H. Parker, 
James W. Cheney, 
Walter C. Faxon, 
Albert L. Pope, 
Normand F. Allen, 
RoLLiN U. Tyler, 
Eugene Boardman, 
William R. Bushnell, 
Edward B. Pratt. 



Managers — igoB-igog. 
Walter C. Faxon, 
William R. Bushnell, 
Normand F. Allen, 
Edward B. Pratt, 
RoLLiN U. Tyler, 
Thomas D. Bradstreet, 
Eugene Boardman, 
Walter L. Wakefield, 
John M. Parker, Jr. 



Managers — igog-igio. 
William R. Bushnell, 
RoLLiN U. Tyler, 
Eugene Boardman, 
Thomas D. Bradstreet, 
Walter L. Wakefield, 
Morgan B. Brainard, 
Frank H. Eldridge, 
John M. Parker, Jr., 
Charles B. Whittelsey. 



Managers — igio- igil. 
William R. Bushnell, 
Eugene Boardman, 
Thomas D. Bradstreet, 
Walter L. Wakefield, 
John M. Parker, Jr., 
Charles B. Whittelsey, 
Nathaniel B. Rogers, 
Louis W. Button, 
Walter St. George Harris. 



Managers — igil-igi2. 
William R. Bushnell, 
Eugene Boardman, 
Thomas D. Bradstreet, 
Walter L. Wakefield, 
John M. Parker, Jr., 
Charles B. Whittelsey, 
Nathaniel B. Rogers, 
Louis W. Button, 
Walter St. George Harris, 



Managers — igi2-igi^. 
Eugene Boardman, 
Walter L. Wakefield, 
John M. Parker, Jr., 
Charles B. Whittelsey, 
Louis W. Button, 
Walter St. George Harris, 
Clarence H. Wickham, 
Allan McLane Mowry, 
Harry W. Reynolds. 



Managers — igi^-igi^.. 
Eugene Boardman, 
Charles B. Whittelsey, 
Louis W. Button, 
Walter St. George Harris, 
Clarence H. Wickham, 
Harry W. Reynolds, 
Ralph A. Blydenburg, 
Isaac W. Birdseye, 
Clarence B. Warner. 



THE SOCIETY 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



State of Connecticut 

1894 

Connecticut High School 
Prize Essay Contest 



1 



PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST. 107 

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

CONNECTICUT SOCIETY. 

To the Connecticut High School Scholars, Greeting: 

The Society of the Sons of the Revolution was instituted in the State of 
New York, Washington's Birthday, 1876, and a national organization per- 
fected in March, 1890. 

The necessity for and the purposes of the Society are, as stated in the 
Constitution: 

" It being evident, from a steady decline of a proper celebration of the 
national holidays of the United States of America, that popular concern in 
the events and men of the War of the Revolution is gradually declining, 
and that such lack of interest is attributable, not so much to the lapse of 
time and the rapidly increasing flood of immigration from foreign coun- 
tries, as to the neglect on the part of descendants of Revolutionary heroes 
to perform their duty in keeping before the public mind the memory of the 
services of their ancestors and of the times in which they lived; therefore, 
the Societ>' of the Sons of the Revolution has been instituted to perpetuate 
the memory of the men, who, in the military, naval and civil service of the 
Colonies and of the Continental Congress, by their apts or counsel, achieved 
the independence of the country, and to further the proper celebration of 
the anniversaries of the birthday of Washington, and of prominent events 
connected with the War of the Revolution ; to collect and secure for preser- 
vation the rolls, records and other documents relating to that period; to 
inspire the members of the Society with the patriotic spirit of their fore- 
fathers; and to promote the feeling of friendship among them." 

Its membership is composed of direct male descendants of ancestors who, 
either as military, naval or marine officers, soldiers, sailors, or marines, or 
officials in the service of any one of the thirteen original colonies or states, 
or of the national government, assisted in establishing the independence of 
the country during the War of the Revolution. 

The various Societies have erected monuments on revolutionary battle- 
fields, and placed memorial tablets on many historic houses, and the New 
York Society has erected a bronze statue to the memory of Connecticut's 
martyr patriot, Captain Nathan Hale, in the City of New York. 

The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the Revolution would erect a 
monument to loyalty and patriotism in the hearts of the youth of Con- 
necticut. Now, therefore, as an incentive to research in the country's patri- 
otic history, and to give them a more intimate knowledge of our forefathers' 
patriotism, devotion, heroism and sacrifices. 

The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the Revolution offers them a silver 
medal as a first prize, and a bronze medal as a second prize, for the best 
original essays upon the subject: 

The Causes that Led to the War of the Revolution. 
Competing essays are to contain not less than 1776 nor more than 1894 
words — to be written on one side only, on 8x10^ paper with lYz inch 



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margin on the left — to be signed by a nom-de-plume, accompanied with a 
sealed envelope with the nom-de-plume on the outside and to contain the 
writer's real name, address, school and a certificate from the superintendent 
or principal that the essay is original. 

All essays must be mailed in a " legal " envelope to the Secretary of this 
Society, before May 22, 1894. The Committee will receive the essays and 
the Secretary will retain the envelopes containing the writers' real names 
until the Committee has reached a decision, when they will be opened by 
the Board of Managers of the Society. The prizes will be awarded at the 
closing exercises of the high schools. 

The Society suggests and authorizes for a committee of review and in- 
spection, the principal and teachers of each competing high school, that only 
meritorious essays be sent. 

The prize medal is silver, the face being a fac-simile of the seal of the 
Society, on the reverse an appropriate inscription with recipient's name. 
The medal to be suspended by a buff and blue (the Society's colors) silk 
ribbon, from a silver bar, bearing the word Connecticut. The second prize 
to be a fac-simile of the first in bronze. 

The Secretary should be informed at the earliest opportunity the number 

of scholars in each high school who will compete. 

Given at New Haven this twenty-second day of February, 

in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and 

ninety-four, and of the Independence of the United States of 

America the one hundred and eighteenth. 

[Seal.] Attest: 

DwiGHT Morris, 

Cyrus Sherwood Bradley, President. 

Secretary. 

Southport, Conn. 

The foregoing plan meets my hearty approval, and I commend it to the 
consideration of the officials and pupils of the High Schools of the State. 

Luzon B. Morris, 
Chairman of State Board of Education. 

In response to the foregoing circular which was issued 
to the High Schools in Connecticut, the Society received 
twenty-four essays, after careful examination the following 
awards were made : 

ist Prize. Aeneas — by G. W. Osmum of Danbury. 

2nd Prize. Molly Stark — by Miss Elsie W. Bates of 
Willimantic. 

Honorable Mention. Nathan Hale Patriot, by W. V. 

Goldie of New London; Dorothy Q. , by Miss Florence 

E. Scott of Willimantic; Sella , by Miss Mary L. 

Crowe of Danbury. 



fSms 




NATHAN HALE SCHOOLHOUSE. 



109 



THE NATHAN HALE SCHOOLHOUSE. 
1750 — 1907. 

Headquarters of the Connecticut Society Sons of the 

Revolution. 

During the 17th and i8th centuries there lived in the 
District of East Haddam, Connecticut, many of the good 
old New England families, whose members and descendants 
have helped to make the history of this ever progressing 
country of ours. Among them were the Atwoods, Barnes, 
Brainards, Bulkeleys, Chapmans, Coles, Clarks, Champions, 
Emmonses, Tullers, Gates, Greens, Graves, Goodspeeds, 
Piersons, Marshalls, Nicholses, and Spencers. 

Splendid farms were laid out, churches and schools were 
established, and manufacturing interests were being dis- 
cussed, when the demands of the Colony called upon the 
heads of these families for their assistance in the protection 
of home interests and for the freedom from foreign rule 
and mismanagement — they responded nobly, as of a single 
voice — today we find in the Colonial and Revolutionary 
War records all of these and many other family names from 
East Haddam as soldiers whose endurance and skill as 
fighters and marksmen in ranks as privates was essential to 
its success as the cleverness and executive ability of those 
who filled every oflicership to that of Major-General. 

About 1749-50 it became apparent to those families in 
East Haddam that a schoolhouse was necessary in that dis- 
trict, and through their influence the building was erected. 

It is unfortunate that the town records do not disclose 
the names of the early teachers in that schoolhouse. 

It was probably about the first of November, 1773, that 
" Nathan Hale " began his career as a teacher in that little 
building which was located at the " forks " in the road 



no SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

between Moodus Landing and Chapman's Ferry. For in 
those days there were usually but two school terms in the 
year — a five months winter term and a four months sum- 
mer term. 

Nathan Hale was then a strong, athletic youth of 
eighteen years. He had graduated from Yale College with 
honors and was well fitted for the profession he entered 
upon — but as he wrote his old college friend, Mr. Mead 
from New London, May 2, 1774, " he concluded that East 
Haddam was too inaccessible, either by friends, acquaint- 
ances, or letter," so he removed to New London, where he 
taught from May, 1774, to July, 1775. 

Stuart's " Life of Nathan Hale, the Martyr Spy," con- 
tains extracts from a letter written by Mrs. Hannah (Green) 
Pierson, who knew Hale well when he lived in East Had- 
dam, in which she says that " he was a happy and faithful 
teacher, everybody loved him, he was so sprightly, intelli- 
gent and kind and so handsome." 

Judge Atwood in his Reminiscences said that, " he had it 
from the lips of a successful teacher, who taught in the same 
building twenty years later, that he received the munificent 
sum of four dollars a month for his services and boarded 
around, and that was the rate for teachers' wages in and 
before his time." Also " that tradition has it that as the 
usual time of school hours was from nine in the morning 
until seven in the afternoon, but Hale was such a favorite 
with his female pupils that they came at seven in the morn- 
ing and remained until nine in the evening, bringing their 
lunches with them." 

This building was used as a school until 1799, when 
another larger one was purchased, at which time Captain 
Elijah Atwood purchased the original schoolhouse and 
removed it to the north some one hundred yards, to a place 
just south of the old burying ground, and, by adding a little 
to it, converted it into a dwelling house. He lived in it 
until his death in 1816, from that time until 1899 it had 
always been occupied by his descendants. In 1850 it was 
purchased by Judge Julius Atwood. In 1899, one hundred 



NATHAN HALE SCHOOLHOUSE. m 

years after it came into the Atwood family, Judge Julius 
Atwood presented the building to Col. Richard Henry 
Green, of the New York Society Sons of the Revolution, 
for the purpose of its being passed by him to Society Sons 
of the Revolution. Col, Green had the building removed 
at his own expense to its present site on the banks of the 
Connecticut river, just back of the old burying ground and 
the Church and transferred it to the New York Society Sons 
of the Revolution. 

At a meeting of the Connecticut Society Sons of the 
Revolution held November 14, 1899, President Hon. 
Morgan G. Bulkeley read a communication from James M. 
Montgomery, Secretary of the New York Society Sons of 
the Revolution asking the Connecticut Society to accept this 
historic schoolhouse, wherein Nathan Hale had begun his 
life work, as a gift from the New York Society. The gift 
was accepted and a committee was appointed to form reso- 
lutions of thanks to the New York Society and Col. R. H. 
Green for their kindness in presenting the Nathan Hale 
Schoolhouse to the Connecticut Society. 

President Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley presented the Con- 
necticut Society with eight acres of picturesque ground on 
the banks of the Connecticut river at East Haddam, which 
surrounds the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse and it has been 
converted into the " Nathan Hale National Park." 

The formal acceptance of the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse 
and Park was held June 6, 1900, the one hundred and 
forty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Nathan Hale, when 
it became the Headquarters of the Connecticut Sons of the 
Revolution, where the annual meetings are held during the 
month of June. The ceremonies were combined with the 
Bicentennial celebration of the town of East Haddam, and 
the unveiling of a bronze bust of Nathan Hale by the 
townspeople to mark the original site of the schoolhouse 
when Hale taught in the winter of 1773-74. 



112 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

The town exercises held in Goodspeed's Opera House 
at 10:30 A. M., consisted of 

Music 

Prayer 

Address 

Response for Haddam . by Rollin U. Tyler. 

Reminiscences of the Old 

Schoolhouse . . by Judge Julius Atwood. 

Poem — Two Hundred 

Years Ago . . by Joe Cone. 

Singing — The Star 

Spangled Banner . by East Haddam School chil- 

dren. 
Historical Address . by Hon. E. Emory Johnson. 

Procession to Village Park. 
Presentation of bust of 

Nathan Hale . . by Wm. E. Nichols. 

Unveiling ... by Mrs. Marcellus Hartley. 
Acceptance ... by Hon. Francis H. Parker. 

Afternoon Exercises. 

Music .... by Colt's Band. 

Prayer ... by Dr. Edward Everett Hale. 

Address — Nathan Hale, 

Schoolmaster . . by Victor H. Palsits. 

Music 

Poem ... by Judge Francis M. Finch. 

Presentation of the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse by F. S. 
Tallmadge, Esq., President of the N. Y. Society Sons of 
the Revolution. 

Acceptance ... by Hon. Morgan G. Bulke- 

ley, President of the Con- 
necticut Society Sons of the 
Revolution, 



NATHAN HALE SCHOOLHOUSE. 



113 



Address ... by Colonel Richard H. Green. 

Singing — My Country 

'Tis of Thee . . by school children and audi- 

ence. 

Benediction. 

Later Col. Richard H. Green gave to the Connecticut 
Society the old clock that stood in the house of his grand- 
father, Captain James Green, at East Haddam, during the 
time Hale boarded there while he was teaching. This gift 
the Society also values very highly. 

In 1799 when Elijah Atwood purchased the building, he 
added that part under the low roof, and all that now remains 
of the original structure is the solid oak frame, the old oaken 
floor in the main body, on which the feet of Nathan Hale 
so often trod, the rafters, the roof boards and the old oak 
planking, which stand as a silent memorial to Nathan Hale, 
the Patriot Martyr Teacher. 

Charles Barney Whittelsey, 

Historian, igo^. 



114 ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ RESOLUTION. 



NATHAN HALE SCHOOL BOY MEDAL. 

At the Annual Meeting of the Society Sons of the Revolu- 
tion in the State of Connecticut, held in the Nathan Hale 
Schoolhouse at East Haddam, June 6, 1901, a resolution was 
introduced by William E. Nichols and unanimously adopted, 
to the effect that this Society annually offer a bronze medal 
to that scholar in the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse District 
(Second School District of East Haddam, Conn.) "who 
shall most display the courage, manliness, and self sacrifice 
which Nathan Hale exemplified in his life," and this boy 
shall be selected by the boys of this Second School District 
of East Haddam, Conn. 

This boy known as the Nathan Hale Scholar is to have 
the United States flag flying on the Nathan Hale School- 
house flagpole every day during the year, and is given a 
reasonable compensation for so doing. 



The Nathan Hale Schoolboy Medal was voted to 

1902 Wilson D. Beebe, 

1903 Wilson D. Beebe, 

1904 Ray Arnold Comstock, 

1905 William Ogden Scoville, 

1906 Henry L. Clarke, 

1907 Stanley D. Plumstead, 

1908 Edwin Claude Swan, 

1909 Eldon T. Swan, 

19 10 Arthur C. Olsen, 

191 1 Harold F. Ray, 

19 1 2 Floyd M. Ray, 

19 13 Daniel J. Taylor. 




MAJOR CiENERAL JOSEPH SPENCER 

1714 1784 



JOSEPH SPENCER. 115 



The Connecticut State Legislature at the session of 
January, 1901, appropriated five hundred dollars for a por- 
trait of Major-General Joseph Spencer, also fifteen hundred 
dollars for a suitable monument, and appointed the follow- 
ing committee In charge of the execution of this work. 

John M. Holcombe, Chairman, Hartford, 
Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley, Hartford, 
Wilson C. Reynolds, East Haddam, 
Charles E. Brownell, East Haddam, 
John B. Gelston, East Haddam. 

A lineal descendant of Major-General Joseph Spencer, 
A. Cass Ledyard of New York City, contributed fifteen 
hundred dollars towards the monument fund. 

The portrait was painted by Charles Noel Flagg of 
Hartford, Conn, and was hung on the walls of the Senate 
Chamber In the Connecticut State Capitol building in Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

After the submission of plans from a number of monu- 
ment makers, the committee selected the design of Stephen 
Maslen, Hartford, Conn., which is twenty-four feet tall, 
with a base seven and one-half feet square of Barre Granite. 
It has a large sub-base with a die and four columns, and an 
overhanging cap surmounted by a round column. This has 
a square cap with a large ball above and a bronze eagle 
over all; the likeness of Major-General Joseph Spencer in 
bronze on the face of the monument; on the reverse side 
the inscription. The monument was erected and dedi- 
cated under the auspices of the Society Sons of the Revo- 
lution in the State of Connecticut, in Nathan Hale Park, 
East Haddam, Conn., Wednesday, June 22, 1904. 



Il6 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



PROGRAMME. 

Invocation. 

Rev. R. R. Parker. 

Singing. ■• 

Star Spangled Banner. 

Presentation to State. 
John M. Holcombe, Chairman of State Commission. 

Unveiling of Monument. 
Nathan Hale Chapter, Daughters of the American 

Revolution. 

Acceptance and transfer to care of Sons of Revolution. 
Abiram Chamberlain, Governor. 

Acceptance of Care. 
Morgan G. Bulkeley, President State Society Sons of 

Revolution. 

Historical Address. 
Charles B. Whittelsey. 

Singing. 
America. 

Benediction. 
Rev. Frederick R. Sanford. 




i'lie exact inscription on tlie Spencer Monument is as follows: — 
"Erected by the State of Connecticut In Memory of the Honourable Joseph Spencer Est|. Major Gen. of 
the Army of the United States of America: Elected Counsellor of the State of Connecticut May 1766 and 
died in office Jany. 13th 1789 in the 75th Year of his Age." 



^ 

• 



Historical Sketch of Joseph Spencer 

Major-General of the Continental Troops, 

Member of the Council of Safety, 

Congressman, Judge, Deputy, 

■Deacon, and Farmer 



Compiled by 

Charles Barney Whittelsey 

Historian Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the 

State of Connecticut 

1904 



I 



SKETCH OF JOSEPH SPENCER. 1 19 



The family records of the Spencer family of East Had- 
dam, Conn., state that Joseph Spencer was born in East 
Haddam, October 6, 17 14, and that he died there Jan- 
uary 13, 1789. 

He was the son of Isaac and Mary (Selden) Spencer 
of that district, and the great-grandson of Gerard and 
Hannah Spencer, who were among the first settlers of East 
Haddam in 1662 (Mss. Gene. Rec. of East Haddam 
families). 

August 2, 1738, Joseph Spencer married Martha Brain- 
erd, by whom he had five children ; their fourth child, Joseph, 
became a surgeon and served as such and as aid to his father 
in the Revolution. 

He married 2d, Hannah (Brown) Southmayd, by whom 
he had eight children (Mss. Gene. Rec. of East Haddam 
families) . 

Without the advantages of a liberal education, Joseph 
Spencer acquired that general knowledge and acquaintance 
with business which enabled him to discharge happily and 
usefully the various duties to which he was called. 

March 14, 1746, he joined the church of the Millington 
Society, and was elected a deacon November 20, 1767. He 
was excused from such service during the Revolution; was 
re-elected April 4, 1788, and retained this office until his 
death (Statistical Account of Middlesex Co., p. 81). 

The peace of Utrecht in 17 13 put an end to a desolating 
war with the French and Indians, and during the next thirty 
years but few events of importance occurred in the Colonies. 
In 1744 " King George War" broke out between France 
and England, and at once brought the Colonists into hostile 
relations. At the time of the crisis in 1746-7) when the 
frontier line from Boston to Albany became no longer 
tenable, we find Joseph Spencer had cai:efully followed the 



I20 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

situation; he had enlisted in the trainband, and on January 
28, 1746-7, received his first appointment by the General 
Assembly, at New Haven, as Lieutenant of the company or 
trainband of the parish of Millington (Col. Rec, Vol. IX, 

P- 375)- 

A treaty of peace was concluded October 7, 1748. By 

its stipulations the British and French mutually gave up 

whatever territory each had taken, and the vigorous effort 

of the New Englanders, thus rendered useless (Garneau). 

At the close of the war, Joseph Spencer turned his 
thoughts again to his home and the local affairs. He had 
been brought up under a strict religious discipline, trained 
to realize that the growth of the Colony, as well as his own 
possessions, depended upon his individual efforts. 

The strong but loving influence of his parents was deeply 
impressed upon this young man, as is shown throughout 
his life; his spirit was never daunted, even under the most 
trying circumstances. He would never allow that the most 
difficult undertakings could not be accomplished; his failures 
spurred him onward and upward. 

In 1750 he was elected a Deputy from East Haddam to 
the General Assembly and by re-elections, served the town at 
nearly all legislative sessions for fourteen years. He was 
also Deputy from that town at the October session, 1778. 
(Col. Rec. Vols. IX to XII, State Rec. Vol. II). 

From the autumn of 1753 until his death he was Judge 
of Probate for the District of East Haddam except while 
absent from the State in the Continental service in 1776 
and 1777. (Statistical Account of Middlesex Co., p. 81). 

Then there arose the Seven-Year War, over the dispute 
between the French and English as to the ownership of the 
territory bordering on the Ohio; 1753 the French seized 
British traders and fort, which was followed by Colonel 
Washington's attack, capture of Jumonville and his men, 
the battle of Great Meadows, General Braddock's defeat, the 
battle at Lake George, the third expedition against Crown 
Point, in which the Virginia, New York, and New England 
troops all took part. 



SKETCH OF JOSEPH SPENCER. 121 

Joseph Spencer was deeply interested in the reports of 
the trials and sufferings of his countrymen, and increased the 
amount of his time given to local military affairs, and by 
his intense interest and devotion had risen from Lieutenant 
to Captain, and was appointed Major of the Twelfth Regi- 
ment of this Colony, in the Northern Army, by the Colonial 
Assembly, Thursday, October 13, 1757 (Col. Rec, Vol. XI, 
p. 68). 

In March, 1758, as Major of the Second Regiment, and 
Captain of the Third Company, under Colonel Nathan 
Whiting, participated with his regiment in the invasion of 
Canada (Col. Rec, Vol. XI, p. 96), the expedition against 
Louisburg, Ticonderoga, and Crown Point. 

In 1759 he received from the General Assembly his 
appointment as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Regiment, 
under Colonel Nathan Whiting (Col. Rec, Vol. XI, p. 226- 
354; Vol. XII, p. 249), and served as such during the siege 
of Quebec, and succeeding years until his appointment in 
May, 1766, Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment, during which 
he was also appointed a member of the Governor's Council 
(Col. Rec, Vol. XII, p. 459; Cyclopedia U. S. History, 
Lossing, Vol. II, p. 1330). 

Colonel Spencer was elected an assistant in 1776 and 
was continued in office by successive re-elections until his 
death except in the year 1778 (Col. Rec, Vols. XII-XV; 
State Rec, Vol. II. He was appointed by the Legislature 
at the special April session, 1775, First Brigadier-General of 
the Regiments then ordered for " the safety of the Colony " ; 
he was also appointed Colonel of the Second Regiment, and 
his commission was dated May i, 1775. He marched with 
his regiment, by order of the Legislature, to the camp form- 
ing around Boston, and took post at Roxbury. During the 
siege of Boston he commanded a brigade of four regiments 
including his own with Parsons and Huntington, in General 
Ward's division at Roxbury (Conn. Men in R., p. 37). 

At a meeting July 13, 1775, of Governor Jonathan 
Trumbull and his Council, his Honor the Governor laid 



122 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

before the Council a letter to General Washington, contain- 
ing the following: 

" I have to observe to your Excellency, that the Honor- 
able Congress have altered the arrangement of the Generals 
appointed by our Assembly. We wish the order we adopted 
had been pursued, and fear Generals Wooster and Spencer 
will think they have reasons to complain. They are gentle- 
men held in high estimation by our Assembly, and by the 
officers and troops under their command. There are reasons 
to fear that inconveniences will arise from the alterations, 
made by the Congress, in the rank and relation of those 
Generals; at the same time they have the highest sense of 
General Putnam's singular merit and services " (Mss. Col., 5 
series. Vol. X) . 

" Two of the Council, Samuel Huntington and William 
Williams, were appointed to wait upon General Spencer at 
Gray's, the tavern where he had just arrived, and confer with 
him on the subject-matter of his dissatisfaction, etc., and 
endeavor to remove, etc., and reconcile him to cheerfully 
pursue the service, which he did accordingly. 

" In the afternoon of the same day they met again at 
the Governor's, where General Spencer attended, and had a 
long conference with him on the subject-matter of being 
superseded by the General Congress, putting General Israel 
Putnam above him, etc., which he thinks is very hard and 
results, etc., and is at length persuaded to return to the army, 
and not at present quit the service as he proposed. 

" General Spencer set out on his return to camp with 
the letters to General Washington " (Am. Archives, 4th 
series. Vol. II, p. 1658). 

June 22, 1775, Colonel Joseph Spencer was appointed 
Brigadier-General of Continental Establishment, by the Con- 
tinental Congress, at the instance of General Washington. 

General Spencer's Second Regiment was raised on the 
first call for troops by the Legislature in April-May, 1775, 
and was recruited mainly in present Middlesex County. The 
General with detachments of officers and men engaged at the 
battle of Bunker Hill, June 17th, and in Arnold's Quebec ex- 



SKETCH OF JOSEPH SPENCER. 



123 



pedition, Sept.-Dec, 1775; It served until expiration of serv- 
ice, December, 1775, and accompanied the troops to New 
York, the next field of operations, and assisted in fortifying 
the city and vicinity, 

August 9, 1776, General Spencer was promoted to 
Major-General of the Continental Army, and given com- 
mand of a division composed of Parsons' and Wadsworth's 
Connecticut Brigades. He was present at Long Island at 
time of the battle August 27th, half of his division being 
engaged; present at White Plains October 25th, and on 
December 14th was ordered eastward, and took command 
In Rhode Island, which was surrounded by Admiral Sir Peter 
Parker's forces. General Spencer remained in command 
through 1777. 

He organized an expedition of about nine thousand 
State troops against the enemy at Newport, and on October 
26, 1777, attempted a forward movement, but the weather 
and failure of one brigade to report in time caused mis- 
carriage of the plan. 

Jonathan Trumbull, in a letter dated December 2, 1777, 
to General Washington, wrote the following relative to the 
affair: " The expedition to Newport hath unhappily failed. 
An inquiry hath been made into the reasons. General 
Spencer was exculpated. A Brigadier Palmer failed in his 
duty. The enemy were meditating an attack on Bedford, 
and had actually embarked troops, which were prevented by 
this." 

General Spencer invited a court of Inquiry and proposed 
another effort. Exonerated by the court November 15, 
1777, Congress on December 11, 1777, ordered an Investi- 
gation. 

General Spencer resigned December 20th following, and 
on January 13, 1778, Congress accepted the resignation, 
" for the reasons offered by him In his letter of the 20th." 
(Copy of letter, pages 7-1 1.) 

February 12, 1778, General Spencer was elected a mem- 
ber of the Council of Safety for this State (Vol. I, Rec. of 
State, p. 537) ; May, 1779; appointed First Major-General 



124 ^-OA^^- OF THE REVOLUTION. 

of the Connecticut Militia, succeeding Major-General Jabez 
Huntington, resigned (State Rec, Vol. II, p. 294) ; the same 
year was appointed Delegate to Congress by the General 
Court. 

Thus it is seen that the eminent patriot General Joseph 
Spencer was engaged in the service of his country from as 
early as he was able to bear arms until he died at the ripe 
age of seventy-five years. 



LETTER OF JOSEPH SPENCER. 125 



The letter of General Joseph Spencer to President George 
Washington and the Continental Congress. 
Dated : 

Providence Dec' 20th 1777 
Sir 

Permit me to Lay before Your Honor, & the Honorable Congress 
a further Account of the difficulties, that have attended the support 
of this Army, and that still subsist here relative thereto — when I 
Arrived here the ist of January last, and untill some time in August, 
there was in this State A Regulating Act, fixing the prices of the 
Articles Necessary to support the Army and while that Act con- 
tinued in force, my Quarter Master was enabled by this State to take 
by impress such Articles as was Necessary for the subsistance of the 
Army, provided he could not obtain them by purchase at the stated 
prices: when I was informed that, that Act was Repealed on the 
25"* of August I made application to the Council of War, to know 
what provision was, or would be made by the State for the Supply 
of the Army, (as the Regulating Act was Repealed) in case the 
Necessary Articles could not be obtained by purchase at a reasonable 
rate, and not Receiving any Written Answer for some time, on the 
I a''' of September I wrote again on the same subject, to the Council 
of War, a Copy of which I enclose, and on the 15''' rec*^ the Council's 
Answer a Copy of which I also enclose, by this Resolve of Council, 
my right to supply the Army with Necessaries by impress, giving 
the Owners a Reasonable price for the Articles taken seemed to be 
granted, provided I could not obtain them by purchase, but then 
the very difficult and important question, what was a reasonable 
price was left solely to me to decide, in this Situation I thought it 
would be the most prudent and safe way for me to Instruct my 
Quarter Master, to purchase what he could at the prices we had 
formerly given, and what he could not obtain at that price he must 
take by Impress, paying at the present what was formerly allowed, 
with Assurance to the Owners, that a Representation of the matter 
should be made to Congress, and that on hearing the case Your 
Honors would doubtless allow what was Just and right; on these 
terms the Quar"" Master supplyed the Army untill the beginning of 



126 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Nov'" altho: not without some Complaint amongst the people; Then 
the Council of War Mannifested their unwillingness to have the 
Army Supply'd in any other way, than giving the Common prices 
to the Owners for them, and were desirous that I should take it on 
myself to supply the Army in that way, and run the risk of the 
approbation of the Accounts, which I declined to undertake, without 
some aid and Assistance from them, as it appeared to me that it was 
very uncertain, wheather we could long obtain Necessary Articles 
for any sum of Bills, as the contempt of them was daily increasing, 
and also I apprehended it was too dangerous a Matter for me to 
Risk the settlements and approbation of such Exorbitant accounts, 
as I must have to settle, if I supply'd in that way; The Council 
then by their Resolve of the last of October Ordered that I should 
be requested to give Orders for purchasing such Necessary Articles 
as the Army in this State required, at the most reasonable prices, 
at which they could be procured, and if their should be any deduction 
made in the settlement of those Accounts, the s*^ State would pay 
what was deducted ; since which the Quarter Master has supplyed 
agreeable to the direction of said Resolve ; The Quarter Master has 
given a list of the prices of a few of the principle Articles at which 
they have been procured since Ocf, and also of the price they ware 
set at in the State Bill or regulating Act. which I enclose. Your 
Honors from This Representation will please to direct what further 
Allowance shall be given for the Articles rec"^ for the Use of the 
Army, on the Conditions above Mentioned from the 15''' of Sep- 
tember to the last of Ocf; the prices of the Articles procured for 
the support of the Army, being three or four times as much as they 
were untill the repeal of the Regulating Act, it now takes such 
enormous sums of Cash to supply a little Army, by reason of which 
and other disappointments, we are now reduced to Extreem want 
of Cash in this Army. — when I rec*^ the Resolve of Congress of the 
18*** July, directing me to apply to M"" Hancock D.y. Pay Master 
for Cash; I imedeately made Application to him Accordingly, but 
by reason of one Obstacle or another, I have never to this time been 
able to obtain from M"" Hancock for the Use of this Army but about 
Twenty Thousand Dollars, and none until the beginning of Nov., 
which was brought by M"" John Adams M'' Hancocks Assistant, M"" 
Adams then informed me, that he would come again at any time 
that I should appoint, giving him a few days Notice, and that he 
expected soon a supply, of Cash, M"" Adams also desired me to give 
Orders to the several Commanders of Reg*^ to be ready with their 



LETTER OF JOSEPH SPENCER. 



127 



pay Rolls at the time I set for him to come, and on the 16^*' ol 
Nov. I wrote to M'' Adams to be at Providence the 9*^ of Ded" 
for the purpose of paying the Troops and supplying the Army with 
Cash, I also directed the several commanders of Reg*^^ to be ready 
with their Pay Abstracts, properly prepared to receive their pay as 
the pay Master would be here by that time, which preparation they 
Accordingly made, and several of them came twenty miles for the 
purpose of receiving their pay, and the very day M"" Adams was 
expected to pay the Troops, I rec"^ to my very great and distressing 
disappointment, a Letter from him, dated the 4'^'* Dec^ Informing 
that he had no Cash but what was needed at Boston, a Copy of 
which I enclose, since which I have Rec'' nothing further from the 
pay Master and I am at present put to Extreem difficulty for want 
of Cash, as the Treasury of this State from whence I used to bor- 
row is exhausted, and I am informed their is no Cash to be had in 
either of the adjacent States, I have informed M"" Hancock that in 
my Oppinion he ought to let us have a part of the Cash he receives, 
if there is not Enough for the supply of the Troops at each Depart- 
ment; could I have had had a reasonable proportion of the Cash, M"" 
Hancock has rec*^ it would have given considerable satisfaction, but 
to be totally Neglected ; unless there is more than is wanted for 
the Troops in and about Boston Affords us Just Matter of Com- 
plaint. — I Esteem it my duty as a Commander to give it as my 
Opinion to your Honors for the safety of this State in particular 
and the United States in General, it is Necessary that this Army 
should be more carefully attended to; there has been for a Year 
past a very Considerable Army of the Enemy in this State, the 
Summer past, and untill the present time — By indisputable Ac- 
counts, the Enemy have been 3600 Strong, Besides the Tory Troops, 
and Marines belonging to the Ships in the Harbour, with which they 
are near 4,000; there is now (mostly Arrived within a few Days) 
twenty Ships and Sloops of War, and 9 or 10 of them of the Line, 
the Enemy doubtless design to keep Possession of the Island of 
Rhode Island while the Contest Continues; they can make a very 
Considerable Army, with their Land and sea force, and it will be 
a Wonder if they should continue very Long without laying some 
part of this Country Waste, it will not give us Security that they 
will not for the future destroy any part of the Country, because they 
have done so little Mischief the Year past, they have doubtless 
several times heretofore had it in Contemplation to make a descent 
on the Main, but have never put it in Execution, in any considerable 



128 ^ONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

degree, once they landed in North Kingston with a party of 2 or 300 
Men, but were drove off, without doing much damage, and we have 
full Evidence that a Considerable Number Embarked with a design 
to make a landing some where, but the place uncertain ; on the Night 
of the 16*** of Ocf but hearing by a Deserter from us that Night, 
that our Army designed a descent on the Island the same Night, 
they disembarked, the Evidence of this we had not only from Desert- 
ers and Prisoners, but found a Return of 390 of the 43*^ Reg*^ that 
Embarked that Night on board the Ships, amongst the papers taken 
in the Syren Frigate, that run on shore at Point Judith. On the 
whole, I think prudence requires that an Army should constantly be 
kept up here for defence, of at least 4,CXX) Men, and this I under- 
stand has been the Opinion of a Committee of the New England 
States, that lately took the Matter in Consideration — the Army 
which has been here since may, in General Including Officers, and 
also the sick, on an Everage (without regard to those Call'd in Ocf 
for the designed Expedition), amounts to about 2400 Men, as will 
appear by the Monthly returns sent to the Hon'ble Board of War 
by this Express — There is in the Army here at present about 
22,00 Men 8,00 of them from the state of Massachusetts — and from 
New Hampshire 260 — the times of the Massachusetts and & N 
Hampshires are out the first of Jan^. — the rest of this Army are 
of this State — Connectticut have sent none here (except those for 
the design of making an attempt on Rhode Island) since last May: 
the calls on them from the Westward & Northward and for guards 
on their own shores have been so great — The state of the Massa- 
chusetts as I have been informed Design to send 15,00 men, but I 
fear they will not be here timely, to replace those whose times are 
soon out — This State have Ordered in one quarter part of their 
Militia: but it is Esteem'd and indeed is Excessively hard upon 
them — They have paid their own Troops, Except about 500 from 
the beginning — 

I beg to observe that from the above State of Facts, it Appears 
to me very Necessary for the support and Encouragement, of A 
Necessary Army for Defence to be kept up in this State — that a 
pay Master should be appointed to reside Constantly here: there 
would be a full Employ for one; and that he should be supply'd by 
your Honors Orders with sufficient Quantities of Cash, for the sup- 
port and pay of the Army — as it is of greater importance to have 
this Army Encouraged and supplyed, than one, more remote from the 
Enemy — Major Spencer who has served with me some time as 



LETTER OF JOSEPH SPENCER. 129 

Aid-De-Camp will Convey this — to whom I beg leave to refer 
your Honors for more perfect Intelligence with relation to Matters 
at this Post. — he has an extract of the doings of the Court of 
Enquiry mentioned in my last, relative to the failure of the expe- 
dition formed Against the Island of Rhode Island, by which I think 
it appears that it did not fail by reason of any Misconduct or want 
of zeal in me. — 

Permit me after Making the above Representation to Acknowl- 
edge that the Difficulties attending the Command of this department. 
Requires a Commander of greater Abilities, and in the Bloom and 
Vigour of life: and that I Earnestly entreat your Honors that such 
a person may be Ordered to Relieve me, and that I may have the 
Opportunity to settle my Accounts Relative to my Command: and 
have your Honors leave to resign my Office. — Your Honors will 
please to inform wheather I am intitled to the Allowance of a Sep- 
arate Command or not. 

I have the Honor to be with all due 

Respect 

Your Honors Most 
Obed* & M° hble serv. 

Jo^ Spencer. 
Hon'ble Congress 
Endorsed : 

Letter from Gen Spencer 
20 Dec' 1777 — read Jan'' 7. 1778 
referred to the board of war 

The remains and gravestones of Major-General Joseph 
Spencer and his wife, Hannah (Brown) Southmayd Spencer, 
were removed from the cemetery at Willington, near the 
place where he was born to the Nathan Hale Park, and 
placed beside this monument. 



I30 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



PROPERTY 

OF THE 

SOCIETY 

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 



Nathan Hale Schoolhouse, East Haddam, Conn. Pre- 
sented to the Society by the New York Society Sons of the 
Revolution, June 6, 1900. 

Nathan Hale Park, East Haddam, Conn. Eight acres 
of land. Presented to the Society by Hon. Morgan G. 
Bulkeley, Hartford, Conn., May 29, 1900. 

Silk Flag of the Society's Colors. Presented to the 
Society by Hon. James W. Cheney, South Manchester, June 
6, 1900. 

Photograph of Original Nathan Hale Commission. 
Presented by Mrs. H. N. Griffith in behalf of Prof. H. P. 
Johnston, New York, June 17, 1902. 

Loving Cup of Solid Silver. Presented by Rev. H. N. 
Wayne in behalf of the New York Society, May 25, 1901. 

Bronze Statuette of Nathan Hale. Presented by the 
New York Society, June 17, 1903. 




^L K\K\ OF NATHAN IIALK FAKK, K.ast Haih.am 



PUBLICATIONS BY THE SOCIETY 131 

PUBLICATIONS BY THE SOCIETY. 

1894 Constitution and By-laws of the Society of the Sons 
of the Revolution, in the State of Connecticut. 
Publication Committee, George B. Sanford, 
Thomas B. Fairchild, Howard N. Wakeman. 
Westport Publishing Company, Printers, West- 
port, Conn., 1894. 27 pages. 

1896 Register of the Sons of the Revolution in the State 
of Connecticut. Cyrus Sherwood Bradley, Pub- 
lication Committee. Press of Tuttle, More- 
house & Taylor, New Haven. Illustrated, 
Cloth Bound. 65 pages. 

1896 A report read at the Annual Meeting of the Connect- 

icut Society Sons of the Revolution, December 
8, 1896, on " Desecration of the American Flag," 
by the Committee, Henry Baldwin, A. Floyd 
Delafield, Alexander Hamilton. Press, New 
Britain Record Print. 16 pages. 

1897 Historical Landmarks of Connecticut, by The United 

Committees on Historical Landmarks of Con- 
necticut. Henry Baldvv'in, Dr. George J. 
Holmes, Timothy Jones. Press of Tuttle, More- 
house & Taylor, New Haven. 39 pages. 

1898 Register of the Sons of the Revolution in the State 

of Connecticut, 1898. Publication Committee, 
Wm. F. Waterbury, Timothy Jones, Col. Henry 
W. Wessells, Rev. Henry N. Wayne. Press of 
Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven. 122 
pages. 

1903 The Society of the Sons of the Revolution in Con- 

necticut. Decennial Report. Publication Com- 
mittee, Walter L. Wakefield, Hanford L. Curtis, 
Charles B. Whittelsey. Press of The Case, 
Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford. 85 pages. 

1904 Historical Sketch of Major-General Joseph Spencer. 

Compiled by Charles B. Whittelsey, Historian. 
1 1 pages. 



IN MEMORIAM 



IN MEMORIAM. 



135 



3(n m^mnriam. 



Brigadier-General Dwight Morris, Bridgeport, Conn. ; a 

Founder of the Connecticut Society; died September 26, 

1894; ancestor, Brevet-Major James Morris. 
I Nathan Gillette Pond, Stratford, Conn. ; a Founder of the 

Connecticut Society; died July 29, 1894; ancestor Charles 

Pond. 
Thomas Freeman Fairchild, Stratford, Conn. ; a Founder 

of the Connecticut Society; died February 7, 1897; 

ancestor, Thomas Elwood. 
William Freeman French, M.D., Noroton, Conn. ; a 

Founder of the Connecticut Society; died January 27, 

1898; ancestor, Samuel Stowe. 
II Timothy Jones, Danbury, Conn.; died July 21, 1903; 

ancestor, Lieutenant John Jones. 
13 Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt, Greenwich, Conn; died April 

8, 1894; ancestor, Sergeant Nathaniel Osborne. 
32 Colonel Frederick Curtis Johnson, Ansonia, Conn.; died 

December 24, 1896; ancestor, John Holbrook. 
44 Thomas Russell Hoyt, Danbury, Conn.; died June 27, 

1896; ancestor, Eliphalet Smith. 
52 Samuel J. Barlow, Waterbury, Conn. ; died November 28, 

1899; ancestor. Ensign Aaron Barlow. 
57 General William Henry Bulkeley, Hartford, Conn.; died 

November 7, 1902; ancestors, William Avery Morgan, 

Eliphalet Bulkeley. 
63 Julius Deming, Litchfield, Conn.; died December 30, 1902; 

ancestor, Julius Deming. 
73 James Edmond Miller, Danbury, Conn.; died June 29, 

1902; ancestor. Lieutenant John Jones. 
85 James Campbell, M.D., Hartford, Conn.; died October 17, 

1899; ancestor, James Campbell. 



136 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

96 Frank Treman Wyckoff, Stamford, Conn. ; died February 
19, 1903; ancestor, Abner Treman. 

50 Geo. F. Lincoln^ Hartford, Conn.; died July 23, 1903, at 
Brussels, Belgium; ancestor, Stephen Lincoln. 

Jesup Wakeman^ Southport, Conn. ; a Founder of the Con- 
necticut Society; died April 3, 1904, in New York City; 
ancestor, Gershom Bulkley. 

Augustus Floyd Delafield^ Noroton, Conn.; a Founder of 
the Connecticut Society; died July 18, 1904, in Noroton, 
Conn. ; ancestors, Colonel William Floyd, Joseph Hallett. 

12 Leigh Richmond Hoyt^ Lyons Plains, Conn.; a Founder of 
the Connecticut Society; died July 25, 1903, Lyons Plains, 
Conn. ; ancestor, Sergeant Nathaniel Osborne. 

46 Henry Baldwin, New Haven, Conn.; died January 2, 1905, 
New Haven, Conn. ; ancestor, Roger Sherman. 
Rear Admiral Louis Joseph Allen, U. S. Navy; a Founder 
of the Connecticut Society; died September, 1905; 
ancestor. Ensign Jacob Strembeck. 

3 John Smith Jones, Westport, Conn. ; a Founder of the Con- 
necticut Society; died November 13, 1906; ancestor, Lieu- 
tenant John Jones. 
Lieutenant-Colonel George Bliss Sanford, U. S. A., Litch- 
field, Conn.; a Founder of the Connecticut Society; died 
July 13, 1908; ancestors. Sergeant Elihu Sanford, Ensign 
Elihu Lyman. 

Colonel Henry Walton Wessells, Litchfield, Conn.; a 
Founder and Treasurer of the Connecticut Society; died 
September 26, 1909, Litchfield, Conn.; ancestor, Elijah 
Holcombe. 

2 Howard Eugene Gates, M.D. ; a Founder of the Connecti- 
cut Society; died November 9, igo8, in Colorado Springs, 
Col. ; ancestors, Major John Wait Garrett, John Garrett. 
6 Simon Couch Sherwood, Southport, Conn.; died March, 
1906, in Southport, Conn.; ancestors, Daniel Sherwood, 
Corporal Simon Couch, Ensign Ebenezer Jesup, Joseph 
Hyde. 
23 Frederick D. Street, Darien, Conn.; died September 26, 
191 1 ; ancestors. Captain Joseph Mather, Reverend Moses 
Mather. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



137 



29 James Barton Bowen, Putnam, Conn.; died March 9, 1907; 
ancestor, Abiel Chaffee. 

38 Frank Howard Hotchkiss, Thomaston, Conn.; died Sep- 
tember 6, 1908; ancestor, Henry Baldwin. 

54 George William Dean, Stamford, Conn.; died January 28, 

1908; ancestor, Ephraim Dean. 

55 George James Holmes, M.D., New Britain, Conn.; died 

1907; ancestor. Sergeant Jabez Holmes. 
75 Rear Admiral Charles Stanhope Cotton, U. S. N. ; died 

February, 1909; ancestor, Sergeant Rowland Cotton. 
77 Reverend Louis French, Noroton, Conn. ; died September 

29, 1912; ancestor. Lieutenant William Glenny. 
112 Edwin Augustus Knapp, Greenwich, Conn.; died April 17, 

1907; ancestors. Major Samuel Lyon, Captain John Crane, 

Ensign Benjamin Brush, Moses Fowler. 
147 William Francis Joseph Boardman, Hartford, Conn.; died 

November 23, 1912; ancestors, Elizur Goodrich, John 

Francis. 

169 Julius Deming Perkins, Jr., Litchfield, Conn.; died Feb- 
ruary 5, 1909; ancestor, Colonel Henry Champion. 

92 Ransom, Ney Fitzgerald, Hartford, Conn. ; died Septem- 
ber 3, 1905, in Quebec; ancestor, Alexander Keeney, Jr. 

86 Colonel William Henry Tubbs, Hartford, Conn.; died 

September 15, 1908; ancestor, Daniel Tubbs. 
192 Ralph Arthur Blydenburg, Middletown, Conn.; died 
October 10, 1913: ancestor, Samuel Palmes, private. 



«s 



officers and Constitution 



THE GENERAL SOCIETY 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

191 1-1914 



OFFICERS OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY. 141 



1911 

OFFICERS OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY. 

General President. 
Hon. EDMUND WETMORE, No. 34 Pine St., New York City. 

General Vice-President. 

JAMES MORTIMER MONTGOMERY, No. 102 Front Street, 

New York City. 

Second General Vice-President. 

Hon. JOHN WINGATE WEEKS, No. 60 Congress Street, 

Boston, Mass. 

General Secretary. 
Prof. WILLIAM LIBBEY, Princeton, N. J. 

Assistant General Secretary. 
W. HALL HARRIS, Jr., No. 216 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md. 

General Treasurer. 

RICHARD McCALL CADWALADER. No. 133 S. 12th Street, 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Assistant General Treasurer. 
*HENRY CADLE, Bethany, Mo. 

General Chaplain. 
Rev. RANDOLPH HARRISON McKIM, D. D., Washington, 

D. C. 

General Registrar. 
Hon. GEORGE ELTWEED POMEROY, Toledo, Ohio. 

General Historian. 
MARSHALL DeLANCEY HAYWOOD, Raleigh, N. C. 



*Deceased May 28, 19 13. 



142 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



THE CONSTITUTION OF THE GENERAL SOCI- 
ETY OF THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

191 1. 

Done at the City of Philadelphia, on the 12th day of 
February, i8go, and of the Independence of the United 
States the one hundred and fourteenth. 

Adopted in the City of New York, March 8th, iSgo. 
Section III amended April 23rd, 1892. 
Section VIII amended April 21st, 1896. 
Section VII amended April 19th, 1905. 

I. 

It being evident, from a steady decline of a proper cele- 
bration of the National holidays of the United States of 
America, that popular concern in the events and men of the 
War of the Revolution is gradually declining, and that such 
lack of interest is attributable, not so much to the lapse of 
time and the rapidly increasing flood of immigration from 
foreign countries, as to the neglect, on the part of descend- 
ants of Revolutionary heroes, to perform their duty in 
keeping before the public mind the memory of the services 
of their ancestors and of the times in which they lived; 
therefore, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution has 
been instituted to perpetuate the memory of the men who, 
in the military, naval and civil service of the Colonies and of 
the Continental Congress by their acts or counsel, achieved 
the Independence of the country, and to further the proper 
celebration of the anniversaries of the birthday of Wash- 
ington, and of prominent events connected with the War of 
the Revolution; to collect and secure for preservation the 
rolls, records, and other documents relating to that period; 
to inspire the members of the Society with the patriotic 



CONSTITUTION OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY. 143 

spirit of their forefathers; and to promote the feeling of 
friendship among them. 

II. 
The General Society shall be divided into State Societies, 
which shall meet annually on the day appointed therefor in 
their respective by-laws, and oftener if found expedient; and 
at such annual meeting the reasons for the institution of the 
Society shall be considered, and the best measures for carry- 
ing them into effect adopted. 

III. 

The State Societies, at every annual meeting, shall 
choose by a majority of the votes present, a President, a 
Vice-President, a Secretary, a Registrar, a Treasurer, a 
Chaplain, and such other officers as may by them respectively 
be deemed necessary together with a board of managers con- 
sisting of these officers and of nine other members, as may 
be provided by their respective Constitutions and By-laws. 

IV. 

Each State Society shall cause to be transmitted annually 
or oftener, to the other State Societies, a circular letter call- 
ing attention to whatever may be thought worthy of obser- 
vation respecting the welfare of the Society or of the general 
Union of the States, and giving information of the officers 
chosen for the year; and copies of these letters shall also 
be transmitted to the General Secretary, to be preserved 
among the records of the General Society. 

V. 
The State Societies shall regulate all matters respecting 
their own affairs, consistent with the general good of the 
Society; judge of the qualification of their members, or of 
those proposed for membership, subject, however, to the 
provisions of this Constitution; and expel any member who, 
by conduct unbecoming a gentleman or a man of honor, or 
by an opposition to the interests of the community in gen- 



144 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



eral or of the Society in particular, may render himself 
unworthy to continue in membership. 

VI. 

In order to form funds that may be respectable, each 
member shall contribute, upon his admission to the Society 
and annually thereafter, such sums as the by-laws of the 
respective State Societies may require; but any of such State 
Societies may provide for the endowment of memberships 
by the payment of proper sums in capitalization, which sums 
shall be properly invested as a permanent fund, the income 
only of which shall be expended. 

VII. 

The regular meeting of the General Society shall be held 
every three years, and special meetings may be held upon 
the order of the General President or upon the request of 
two of the State Societies, and such meetings shall consist 
of two Delegates from each State Society and one additional 
Delegate for every one hundred (lOo) members or major 
fraction thereof; and on all questions arising at meetings of 
the General Society each Delegate there present shall be 
entitled to one vote, and no votes shall be taken. by States, 
and the necessary expenses of such meeting shall be borne 
by the State Societies. 

VIII. 

At the regular meeting, a General President, General 
Vice-President, General Second Vice-President, General 
Secretary, Assistant General Secretary, General Treasurer, 
Assistant General Treasurer, General Registrar, General 
Historian and General Chaplain shall be chosen by a major- 
ity of the votes present, to serve until the next regular Gen- 
eral meeting, or until their successors are duly chosen. 

IX. 

At each general meeting the circular letters which have 
been transmitted by the several State Societies shall be con- 



CONSTITUTION OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY. 145 

sidered, and all measures taken which shall conduce to the 
general welfare of the Society. 

X. 

The General Society shall have power at any meeting 
to admit State Societies thereto, and to entertain and deter- 
mine all questions affecting the qualifications for member- 
ship in or the welfare of any State Society as may, by proper 
memorial, be presented by such State Society for considera- 
tion. 

XI. 

Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, of 
good character, and a descendant of one who, as a military, 
naval, or marine officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, in actual 
service, under the authority of any of the thirteen Colonies 
or States or of the Continental Congress, and remaining 
always loyal to such authority, or a descendant of one who 
signed the Declaration of Independence, or of one who, as 
a member of the Continental Congress or of the Congress 
of any of the Colonies or States, or as an official appointed 
by or under the authority of any such legislative bodies, 
actually assisted in the establishment of American Independ- 
ence by services rendered during the War of the Revolution, 
becoming thereby liable to conviction of treason against the 
Government of Great Britain, but remaining always loyal to 
the authority of the Colonies or States, shall be eligible to 
membership in the Society. 

XII. 

The Secretary of each State Society shall transmit to the 
General Secretary a list of the members thereof, together 
with the names and official designations of those from whom 
such members derive claim to membership, and thereafter 
upon the admission of members in each State Society, the 
Secretary thereof shall transmit to the General Secretary 
information respecting such members similar to that herein 
required. 

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XIII. 

The Society shall have an insignia, which shall be a badge 
suspended from a ribbon by a ring of gold; the badge to be 
elliptical in form, with escalloped edges, one and one-quarter 
inches in length, and one and one-eighth inches in width; the 
whole surmounted by a gold eagle, with wings displayed, 
inverted; on the obverse side a medallion of gold in the 
center, elliptical in form, bearing on its face the figure of a 
soldier in Continental uniform, with musket slung; beneath, 
the figures 1775 ; the medallion surrounded by thirteen raised 
gold stars of five points each upon a border of dark blue 
enamel. On the reverse side, in the center, a medallion cor- 
responding in form to that on the obverse, and also in gold, 
bearing on its face the Houdon portrait of Washington in 
bas-relief, encircled by the legend, " Sons of the Revo- 
lution "; beneath, the figures 1883; ^^^ upon the reverse of 
the eagle the number of the badge to be engraved; the 
medallion to be surrounded by a plain gold border, conform- 
ing in dimensions to the obverse; the ribbon shall be dark 
blue, ribbed and watered, edged with buff, one and one- 
quarter inches wide, and one and one-half inches in displayed 
length. 

XIV. 

The insignia of the Society shall be worn by the members 
on all occasions when they assemble as such for any stated 
purpose or celebration, and may be worn on any occasion of 
ceremony; it shall be carried conspicuously on the left breast, 
but members who are or have been oflSicers of the Society 
may wear the insignia suspended from the ribbon around the 
neck. 

XV. 

The custodian of the insignia shall be the General 
Secretary, who shall issue them to members of the Society 
under such proper rules as may be formulated by the Gen- 
eral Society, and he shall keep a register of such issues 
wherein each insignia issued may be identified by the number 
thereof. 



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XVI. 

The seal of the Society shall be one and seven-eighth 
Inches in diameter, and shall consist of the figure of a Minute- 
man in Continental uniform, standing on a ladder leading 
to a belfry; in his left hand he holds a musket and an olive 
branch, whilst his right grasps a bell-rope; above, the 
cracked Liberty Bell ; issuing therefrom a ribbon bearing the 
motto of the Society, Exegi monumentiim aere perennius; 
across the top of the ladder, on a ribbon, the figures i']']6\ 
and on the left of the Minute-man, and also on a ribbon, the 
figures 1883, the year of the formation of the Society; the 
whole encircled by a band three-eighths of one inch wide; 
thereon at the top thirteen stars of five points each; at the 
bottom the name of the General Society, or of the State 
Society to which the seal belongs. 



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